Kepler-452b is among more than 1,000 exoplanets, which are thought to have similar attributes to Earth such as a rocky surface, oceans and orbiting a star like our Sun at a habitable distance.

It's thus in a more energetic phase of its life cycle than the sun is; indeed, the star is about 10 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than Earth's sun. (That means the sunlight on Kepler-452b ...

Because Kepler 452b orbits at an Earth-like distance from a sun-like star, the amount of sunshine it gets is expected to be similar to that on Earth, said Jenkins. "It would feel a lot like home ...

Kepler-452b orbits a parent star, belonging to the same class as the sun, it’s just 4 per cent bigger and 10 per cent brighter. It takes 385 days to orbit the star.

NASA on Thursday announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, the most Earth-like planet ever found. Located 1,400 light-years from our planet, NASA called it "Earth 2.0," because it's the first small ...

From ancient Kepler 452b, orbiting a sun-like star 1,400 light-years away, to the oceanic Trappist-1f only 41 light-years distant, these discoveries open new frontiers for the quest to find life ...

What would it be like to walk on Kepler 452b? We don’t know much — but what we know is enticing. This strange new word may be Earth-like, but it’s still going to be very alien.

However, Kepler-452b is approximately 1,800 light-years away. With current spacecraft technology, traveling to this distant planet would take millions of years, making colonization a distant dream ...

Kepler-452b is a near-Earth-size world in the habitable zone of stars similar to our Sun. The star is about 10 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than Earth’s Sun. This world is about 60 percent ...