The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

The Kepler mission has confirmed its first potentially habitable world, a planet 600 light-years from Earth in a 289-day orbit around a smaller, cooler version of our sun. The planet is a "super-Earth ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Kepler-452b may be Earth's close cousin, but living on the newfound world would still be an alien experience. A group of pioneers magically transported to the surface of Kepler-452b-- which is the ...

Although most of the planet candidates cataloged by NASA's Kepler space telescope have diameters in the range of 2 to 4 times that of the Earth, little Kepler-138 b is only about the size and mass of ...

This artist’s concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our sun. On the day NASA ...

You’ve heard of hot Jupiters, mini-Neptunes and super-Earths -- but how about an almost-Mars? Scientists using data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have pinned down the mass of an exoplanet that’s ...

Scientists may be on the verge of confirming that moons exist beyond our solar system. A likely candidate could be unlike any satellite we've ever seen. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

Astronomers digging through data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope say they have discovered the closest Earth-like “twin” circling another star ever found. The planet, called ...

Space company Kepler Communications has raised an oversubscribed US$60M Series B to provide it with a capital injection for the continued scaling of its on-orbit satellite communications network. This ...