Swipe Down for Full Video Story Six hundred and thirty five light years from Earth lies a world that sounds almost too good ...

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, dubbed ...

NASA scientists announced the discovery of the first habitable planet outside of our solar system on Monday. Kepler-22b, a mere 600 light years away, orbits a “Sun-like” star that is 2.4 times the ...

This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a ...

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It's several times larger than Earth and 600 light years away, but a newly discovered planet, Kepler-22b, is also said to be 72 degrees--and NASA's Kepler mission has named it as a planet that's just ...