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 ...

Astronomers think they've found a "super Earth" that might be capable of sustaining life. Kepler-62f is a planet 1,200 light-years away from our own, and in the same range of planets that are likely ...

A planet 1,200 light years away is one of the best candidates for life that we've ever discovered. It's called Kepler-62f, and it's so far away that we can't tell many details about it. But a team of ...

It's been over 20 years since the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system was discovered, and at last count the grand total stands at 3,268. Unfortunately, only a handful of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have been trying to find habitable planets similar to planet Earth. Due to the climate change issue, some scientists are eager to discover an alternative planet to relocate some of the ...

The planet, which is about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lyra, is approximately 40 percent larger than Earth. At that size, Kepler-62f is within the range of ...

Two exoplanets in the habitable zones of their stars probably have stable climates and regular seasons, scientists have discovered. One of them, astronomers believe, is roughly the size of Earth. In ...

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 ...