NASA discovery of planet remarkably like ours gives hope for 'second Earth' Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

“This discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life,” Boss said. “Kepler is on the verge of determining the actual abundance of habitable, Earth-like ...

With half the mass of Earth, the newly discovered planet is one of the lightest among the nearly 5000 exoplanets known today. ... GJ 367 b therefore cannot be considered a ‘second Earth’.

The exoplanet, Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth and is located in the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-725. The discovery is published in Nature Astronomy.

If this theoretical second planet in the system is confirmed, it would become the smallest habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS, NASA's exoplanet-detecting satellite.

HARPS achieved a precision of 1 meter per second, enabling the discovery of smaller planets, including the first super-Earth.

Scientists studying data from the Alpha Centauri star system on Wednesday announced what they believe is a second Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to the sun.The finding, announced via ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. "Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 January 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230110151046 ...

The first discovery of a second Earth will likely be another watershed moment for her and many, she said. "An Earth analogue has different implications," she said.

Like Earth, it’s made of rock. “This is a historic discovery,” said Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, at a press conference introducing the new planet.

On July 23, 2015, NASA announced the discovery of the first truly Earth-like planet. This find comes thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope , which was launched in March of 2009 and has been planet ...

PASADENA (CBS)— NASA announced a major milestone in the quest for life in the universe Monday: The discovery of another planet close enough to Earth that it could support life. The planet ...