There's a planet called Kepler-62f located about 1,200 lightyears from our own planet, and NASA introduced it to the public back in early 2013. At the time, NASA had said the planet is located in a ...

Today, NASA announced a new milestone in Kepler's survey of the heavens -- the confirmation of Kepler 62e and 62f as existing planets within the habitable zone of their parent star, Kepler 62. These ...

Climate and orbit models reveal that Earth-like planet Kepler-62f may be able to sustain life, according to experts. Kepler-62f is located some 1,200 light-years away from the Earth and is about 40 ...

Two of the earliest Earth-ish exoplanet finds are now more exciting targets in the search for habitable worlds beyond this rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

Yesterday, we covered the new exoplanet profiles, which were discovered by the Kepler Space Observatory, but we wanted to delve a little bit deeper on the candidates in the Kepler-62 system, the two ...

According to NASA, the ailing Kepler Space Telescope is officially beyond repair, and is hereby relieved of its planet-hunting duties. But the Agency isn’t giving up entirely. The question now turns ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found two planets that are perfectly sized and positioned to potentially hold life. NASA scientists are not saying that they actually have discovered life on the ...

Although the Kepler space telescope already past its expected lifespan, NASA is trying to keep it alive and on its planet-finding mission. NASA's Kepler space telescope has found more than 2,700 ...

Americans who lament that this country can no longer seem to do anything great are overlooking technological wonders like NASA’s Kepler mission and its search for habitable planets. The Kepler space ...

A distant 'super-Earth' size planet known as Kepler-62f could be habitable, a team of astronomers reports. The planet, which is about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation ...