From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

Kepler 452b appears to have many similarities to Earth, but is 1,400 light years away. Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet—a potentially rocky planet circling its ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...