As Kepler kept observing, the discoveries mounted. On December 5, 2011, Kepler-22b’s discovery electrified the world, as it was the first “super-Earth” discovered orbiting in the habitable ...
The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...