[Alien Planet Kepler-186f: Potentially Habitable World in Pictures] If you were standing on the surface of the exoplanet, Kepler-186 would appear about 30 percent larger than the sun appears from ...

It's possible that the planet has an atmosphere that can help keep water in liquid form on the surface, a prerequisite for life as it is known on Earth. Kepler-186f is on the outer edge of the ...

shrouding the surface in a gassy atmosphere that’s too thick for Earth-like life. Kepler-186f may be close to Earth size, but it’s hardly close by. It sits some 490 light-years away in the ...

Kepler-186f is about 11 percent larger than Earth in diameter, which means it has nearly 25% more surface area. Kepler-186f is more like our bigger sister than our twin. Small red stars vastly ...

Scientists using NASA’s Kepler telescope have found the first Earth-size planet orbiting its star at just the right distance for water to exist on its surface ... that Kepler-186f is rocky ...

According to what we know, it’s most likely that Kepler-186f is a rocky planet like the Earth, with a similar surface gravity. That in turn implies it could have water. But again, we just don ...

Kepler-186f is almost exactly the same size as the Earth and has temperatures that are mild enough to allow liquid surface water. If the planet has lakes or oceans, scientists say it would ...

called Kepler-186f, is the smallest “exoplanet” so far discovered and is highly likely to be a rocky planet like Earth, with its own atmosphere and solid surface where liquid water and ...

well outside the so-called "Goldilocks" zone where water can exist as a liquid on the surface. The newly discovered fifth planet, Kepler 186f, is roughly the same size as Earth and orbits in the ...

That is about all that we know about 186f for now. Kepler doesn’t have the capacity to give information about the planet’s atmosphere, its surface temperature, or even its density. But Kepler ...

Being close to Earth’s size increases the chances that the planet has a rocky, rather than gaseous, surface. And because it gets the right amount of stellar radiation, Kepler-186f is able to ...