Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away ...

The curious minds at What If reveal what scientists know so far about Kepler-22b, exploring its potential habitability and ...

If there's life out there, scientists are getting closer to finding where it might reside. On Monday, astronomers announced the discovery of the first planet in the habitable zone of a sunlike star.

This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the things scientists still don’t know about Kepler-22b, from atmosphere to surface ...

It's several times larger than Earth and 600 light years away, but a newly discovered planet, Kepler-22b, is also said to be 72 degrees--and NASA's Kepler mission has named it as a planet that's just ...

The same team that recently discovered the possibly water-covered, life-supporting planet, Kepler 22b, two weeks ago announced the discovery of two more Earth-sized planets on Monday. Ars Technica's ...

In Apple TV’s Pluribus, a faint radio signal from deep space reshapes humanity, and the source, astronomers learn, is Kepler-22b, a world that exists far beyond our solar system. During episode 8, ...