Kepler-438b takes 35 days to revolve around its host star and it has a diameter just 12% larger than Earth. There’s a 70% chance that it’s terrestrial.

Kepler-438b is regularly hit by huge flares of radiation from the red dwarf Kepler-438 (artist's impression pictured) and this could render the planet uninhabitable. While our sun similarly ...

Kepler-438b is only 12 percent bigger than Earth in diameter, and scientists gave it a 70 percent chance of being rocky like our own world. Scientists were further tantalized by its distance from ...

Kepler-438b is 475 light-years away and Kepler-442b is 1,100 light-years away, and both are located in the constellation Lyra.

The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation.The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been stripped away as a result of ...

One of the new Earth-sized planets, Kepler-438b, is about 470 light-years away, has a diameter just 12 percent bigger than Earth's, gets 40 percent more light than our planet, and has a 70 percent ...

Scientists at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom have found that the Earth-like Kepler-438b may not be viable location for alien life. The team said the exoplanet is regularly ...

London: Most of Earth-like planets could have been rendered uninhabitable by massive radiation blasts, new research has found. The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been ...

It’s called Kepler-438b and it’s the most Earth-like exoplanet astronomers have discovered to date, a place of profound interest for seekers of extraterrestrial life. Well, it was anyway.

One of the discoveries, Kepler-438b, is now arguably the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered, taking the title from another discovery made by Kepler last April.