Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

Want to get away this winter? Consider Kepler-22b, a newly discovered alien world just 600 light-years away where the average temperature is around 72 degrees Fahrenheit. NASA’s Kepler space telescope ...

The curious minds at What If explore what life would be like on Kepler-22b, imagining alien ecosystems, climate, and potential human adaptation.

In Apple TV’s Pluribus, a faint radio signal from deep space reshapes humanity, and the source, astronomers learn, is Kepler-22b, a world that exists far beyond our solar system. During episode 8, ...