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As far as extrasolar planets go, ‘GJ 367 b’ is a featherweight. With half the mass of Earth, the newly discovered planet is one of the lightest among the nearly 5000 exoplanets known today.

The hunt is on for a second Earth, somewhere out there in the Milky Way galaxy, but a newly discovered world is not quite the thing. It comes in at around 1.9 times the mass of Earth, orbiting its ...

Kepler-1649c is located 300 light-years from Earth. NASA described it as the "most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature" out of the thousands of exoplanets discovered by Kepler.

NASA announced a major milestone in the quest for life in the universe Monday: The discovery of another planet close enough to the sun it orbits to potentially support life. Called Kepler-22b, the ...

Scientists are expected to reveal the discovery of a planet which could act as a "second Earth" for the human race. The planet, uncovered by the European Southern Observatory, is said to have the ...

Scientists studying data from the Alpha Centauri star system on Wednesday announced what they believe is a second Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to the sun.The finding, announced via ...

Like Earth, it’s made of rock. “This is a historic discovery,” said Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, at a press conference introducing the new planet.