shrouding the surface in a gassy atmosphere that’s too thick for Earth-like life. Kepler-186f may be close to Earth size, but it’s hardly close by. It sits some 490 light-years away in the ...

It's possible that the planet has an atmosphere that can help keep water in liquid form on the surface, a prerequisite for life as it is known on Earth. Kepler-186f is on the outer edge of the ...

[Alien Planet Kepler-186f: Potentially Habitable World in Pictures] If you were standing on the surface of the exoplanet, Kepler-186 would appear about 30 percent larger than the sun appears from ...

According to what we know, it’s most likely that Kepler-186f is a rocky planet like the Earth, with a similar surface gravity. That in turn implies it could have water. But again, we just don ...

Scientists using NASA’s Kepler telescope have found the first Earth-size planet orbiting its star at just the right distance for water to exist on its surface ... that Kepler-186f is rocky ...

Kepler-186f is slightly bigger than Earth, measuring about 1.1 Earth radii. (An Earth radius is the distance from the Earth's center to its surface). The researchers don't know yet what the mass ...

That is about all that we know about 186f for now. Kepler doesn’t have the capacity to give information about the planet’s atmosphere, its surface temperature, or even its density. But Kepler ...

Kepler-186f is almost exactly the same size as the Earth and has temperatures that are mild enough to allow liquid surface water. If the planet has lakes or oceans, scientists say it would ...

well outside the so-called "Goldilocks" zone where water can exist as a liquid on the surface. The newly discovered fifth planet, Kepler 186f, is roughly the same size as Earth and orbits in the ...

called Kepler-186f, is the smallest “exoplanet” so far discovered and is highly likely to be a rocky planet like Earth, with its own atmosphere and solid surface where liquid water and ...

Kepler-186f, announced in 2014 ... radiated by the star would permit water to exist as a liquid on the planet's surface if certain other conditions are also met. Of these 500 candidates, Kepler ...