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Most Earth-like planet ever spotted by scientists
An artist’s rendering of what Kepler 438b may look like.
Harvard scientists have discovered the most earth-like planet ever in the Lyra constellation, some 470 light years away.
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) made the announcement at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle on Tuesday.
Kepler 438b is slightly bigger than Earth and is in the orbit...
Scientists discover planet 17 times Earth's weight
This June 2, 2014 handout provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows the newly discovered ‘mega-Earth’ Kepler-10c dominating the foreground in this artist’s conception.
Discovery of a huge rocky planet 17 times as heavy as the Earth has prompted scientists to, judging from its age, rethink the origins of the universe.
Kepler-10c, the new find by NASA’s...
NASA Discovers Three More Potentially Habitable Alien Worlds
The 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 surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.”
Five planets are in the Kepler-62 system, and two planets are in the Kepler-69 system. Two planets from the Kepler-62 system–62e and 62f–and one...
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