The Kepler team for example estimated that Kepler-22b, if it had an atmosphere like Earth's, would enjoy balmy average temperatures of 72 degrees Fahrenheit, "a little warmer than a nice day here ...

Imagine stepping onto a distant exoplanet, where vast alien oceans stretch beyond the horizon. Based on data from missions ...

Planet Kepler-22b might be right temperature for liquid water. Dec. 6, 2011 — -- NASA's Kepler space telescope has found a new planet-- the most Earth-like yet -- circling a yellow star ...

Smaller planets like Earth are primarily rocky and can only hold on to a thin atmosphere. Kepler-22b is in the middle, bigger than all the rocky planets in our system, but smaller than the gas giants.

Kepler 22b is about twice the size of Earth and has temperatures which average around 72 degrees (22 Celsius). It also contains the right atmosphere to potentially support life. However, there is ...

NASA announced finding an Earth-like planet outside outside the solar system that could have have the right temperature to support life. As Brian Vastag reported: The search for Earth-like planets ...

Of the 54 candidate planets in the “habitable” zone, where liquid water could exist, Kepler-22b is the first to be confirmed. This milestone will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Now Bill Borucki, Kepler's chief scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, has announced the confirmation of an exoplanet 2. First Exoplanet In The Habitable Zone Of A Sun-Like Star ...

It's the NASA Kepler mission's most recent exciting confirmed discovery, the extrasolar-planet Kepler 22B. It's 600 light years from Earth, orbits a star very similar to our Sun in a period of about ...