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NASA finds most Earth-like planet yet as Kepler 452b hints at alien life

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

A possible ice-cold Earth discovered in the archives of the retired Kepler Space Telescope

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Meet HD 137010 b: This NASA’s new exoplanet candidate is Earth-sized but its bone-chilling cold

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into ...
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Limits on surface gravities of Kepler planet-candidate host stars from non-detection of solar-like oscillations

We present a novel method for estimating lower-limit surface gravities log g of Kepler targets whose data do not allow the detection of solar-like oscillations. The method is tested using an ensemble ...
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NASA’s Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet ...
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NASA announces discovery of 'Earth 2.0'

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...
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Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...