Kepler-186f, slightly larger than Earth, orbits its red dwarf star in the habitable zone, receiving one-third of Earth's solar energy. Proxima Centauri b, Earth's closest exoplanet at over 4 light ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most ...

Recently we learned about the exoplanet Kepler-186f, a potentially earthlike, potentially habitable world only around 500 lightyears away. But when I mentioned that here plants would grow red ...