The actual story is almost second to the stunning, neon visuals of Kepler-442b, which is based on an actual exo-planet of the same name about 1,200 lightyears from Earth.

While Kepler-442b may have been given a higher rating on this index than the Earth, that doesn't mean that it's more habitable than our home planet, and therefore may not necessarily be capable of ...

Kepler-442b, one-third larger than Earth and which receives two-thirds of the light that reaches our planet, has a 97% chance of being in a habitable zone. NASA As.com Update: Aug 16th, 2022 10:43 EDT ...

Canadian astronaut legend Chris Hadfield has his own suggestion, opining this past weekend that Kepler-442b would be "an excellent planet for [NASA's James Webb Telescope] to have a look at." ...

Kepler-442b soon undergoes something of a social evolution as ratings for its Education Channel triple and the demand for stories about the Earthlings surpasses every other type of programming ...

Kepler-442b has a radius of 1.34 times that of Earth and more than twice its mass It is just slightly under 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra ...

It's you and me, Kepler−442b! The “sweet spot” for hosting a rich Earth-like biosphere is so narrow that only one exoplanet identified so far has Earth-like conditions and may be potentially ...

"Kepler-442 is noteworthy in that this star (spectral classification, K5) hosts what is considered one of the best Goldilocks planets, Kepler-442b, a rocky planet that is a little more than twice ...

One of his favorites is Kepler-442b, a world that's likely rocky and with temperatures cozy enough for life. It orbits a star a little cooler than our sun, so it's not exactly like Earth.

Kepler-442b's close position to its host star (0.4x AU, or roughly as close to its star as Mercury is to the Sun) doesn't preclude it as a habitable planet.