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 ...

The exoplanet Kepler-452b circles its parent star in an orbit very much like that of the Earth around the sun, as seen in this NASA diagram. Kepler-452b takes 385 to orbit its star, and is in the ...

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.

Kepler-452b is 60 percent larger in diameter than Earth and is considered a super-Earth-sized planet. ... Kepler-452, than Earth is from the Sun. Kepler-452 is 6 billion years old, ...

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 may be Earth’s close cousin, ... the star is about 10 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than Earth’s sun. (That means the sunlight on Kepler-452b, ...