The crew of The Ark (streaming now on Peacock) abandoned a dying Earth in pursuit of humanity’s new home on Proxima centauri b. That world does have one thing going for it, it’s nearby, orbiting the ...

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were pointing to a planet that orbits a star much like our own, in a region where ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

Andrew Norton has previously received funding from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC). He is the author of a book about exoplanets for children, "Oogle Flip and the Planet Adventure" ...

First of all, some definitions for this thought experiment. The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second or roughly 671 million miles per hour. A light year is defined as the distance a ...