new earths
92 Percent of Earth-Like Planets Are Yet to Be Born, NASA Study Says
92 percent of all potentially habitable planet-formation is yet to occur, but we'll never see the results.
The Kepler Space Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Are Over, But It's Been A Great Run
Now the question is what else can it do.
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Twenty-Two Light Years Away, a Slim Hope for Life
Meet GJ 667Cc. GJ 667Cc is what's known as a "Super-Earth," a planet outside of our solar system (extrasolar) with a mass larger than Earth's, but smaller than our solar system's neighborhood gas giants. GJ 667Cc orbits a red dwarf star known as GJ...
Kepler Confirms a Habitable Zone Planet (But Don't Pack Your Bags)
The "habitable zone" in astronomy-speak is the area around a star where liquid water could exist. It's not, like, some cozy astronaut campground off in the cosmos. We know now for sure that about 600 light years away the planet known as Kepler-22b...
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