Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A planet 1,200 light years away is one of the best candidates for life that we've ever discovered. It's called Kepler-62f, and ...

Astronomers think they've found a "super Earth" that might be capable of sustaining life. Kepler-62f is a planet 1,200 light-years away from our own, and in the same range of planets that are likely ...

Two of the earliest Earth-ish exoplanet finds are now more exciting targets in the search for habitable worlds beyond this rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

Climate and orbit models reveal that Earth-like planet Kepler-62f may be able to sustain life, according to experts. Kepler-62f is located some 1,200 light-years away from the Earth and is about 40 ...

Artist's conception of Kepler-62f, which may, according to theory, have a solid surface and liquid water. NASA Ames / JPL-Caltech The Kepler team’s announcement of the smallest, most Earthlike planets ...

Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...

A distant 'super-Earth' size planet known as Kepler-62f could be habitable, a team of astronomers reports. The planet, which is about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation ...

Astronomers have been trying to find habitable planets similar to planet Earth. Due to the climate change issue, some scientists are eager to discover an alternative planet to relocate some of the ...

A planet 1,200 light years away is one of the best candidates for life that we've ever discovered. It's called Kepler-62f, and it's so far away that we can't tell many details about it. But a team of ...