Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA announced Tuesday it has discovered a planet that is a lot like Earth, and could possibly support life. Produced by Matthew Stuart Follow TI Video: On Facebook ...

However, the newly discovered planet, Kepler-442b ... meaning it’s larger than Earth but smaller than gas giants like Neptune ...

Two significant additional discoveries-the identification of twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and d, and the existence of water-rich planets-show us that there are many ways for small exoplanets to be ...

"The three previously known planets that orbit the star Kepler-51 are about the size of Saturn but only a few times the mass of Earth, resulting in a density like cotton candy. We think they have ...

The Kepler telescope detects tiny dips in the brightness of stars as planets pass between them ... sun and could in theory show us what Earth could be like that far down the line, as aging stars ...

Kepler-62f (also known ... was something in between those two planets. It seems like wasted real estate,” Kane says. So Kane dropped a fictional super-Earth in that gap to see what would happen.

And theorists believed that, like Jupiter, giant planets would only be found ... By 2011 or so he expects Kepler to have detected a few dozen Earth- or Mars-size planets set just far enough ...