While Kepler-452b is larger than Earth, its 385-day orbit is only 5 percent longer. The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun. Kepler-452 is 6 ...

The space agency today announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, the smallest planet we’ve found yet orbiting inside a star’s habitable zone — the places around a sun where it’s warm enough ...

"Kepler-452b could be experiencing now what the Earth will undergo more than a billion years from now, as the Sun ages and grows brighter." WE CAN'T SEE A PICTURE OF IT It's far too far away for ...

The exoplanet Kepler-452b (R), as compared with Earth (L), a ... More we now believe we understand how the Sun and our solar system formed, this early view is an illustration only.

The planet and star it's orbiting are about 6 billion years old - 1.5 billion years older than our sun. Although NASA does not know if there is life on Kepler 452b, Jon Jenkins, the Kepler data ...

Kepler-452b is located within its star’s habitable ... Its thin atmosphere fails to trap the Sun’s heat, leaving the planet cold, with temperatures dropping as low as -243°F (-153°C).

The things we witness are turning into inner landscapes. Fragments of conversations become collective thoughts and somewhere in the distance, Kepler 452b is orbiting a sun that is warmer than ours.

It's possible that the world would have clouds in its atmosphere. Kepler-452b is a near-Earth-size world in the habitable zone of stars similar to our Sun. The star is about 10 percent larger and 20 ...