Kepler 452b, often called Earth’s “cousin,” has fascinated scientists and space enthusiasts alike for its remarkable potential to support life. This video explores why up to 94% of the ...

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.

Kepler-452b Kepler-452b is the most Earth-like exoplanet ever found, according to NASA. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth, and orbits a sunlike star at a distance similar to Earth’s orbit.

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.

Kepler-452b is sometimes called “Earth’s cousin” or “Earth 2.0”, and some astronomers have nicknamed it , which is the name of the home of the Galactic Empire in the Star Wars films.

A planet one-and-a-half times the size of Earth has emerged as the most likely planet outside our solar system to support alien life. Kepler 452b, which is 1,400 light years away, is in the middle ...

Kepler 452, in the constellation of Cygnus, is about 20 per cent brighter than the sun and some two billion years older. The planet 452b has been called "Earth's cousin".

The particular instrument that spotted Kepler 452b is generally pretty reliable, but even so, the data falls below the 99 percent threshold needed to ‘confirm’ a planet.

In 2015 NASA’s Kepler mission discovered Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers ...