Dwarf star HD 40307g hosts a system of six planets, and one of those is believed have the potential to support human life.
Mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles burst into applause and cheered as they received signals
From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terrain where the voyaging robot spent the Martian winter.
The Opportunity rover, which landed on Mars nearly eight years ago, has discovered a thin, bright mineral vein along
Called Kepler-22b, the planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth and about 600 light-years away.