The age of this distant solar system is also important because it provides plenty of time for life in a form similar to something like what we're familiar with to develop. In fact, Kepler-452b has ...

Kepler-452b is the most Earth-like planet ever discovered, a place with just enough sunlight to possibly support the crops and house plants of life forms like ourselves. But don't pack your bags ...

Water is thought to be a key requirement for life to evolve, so Kepler-452b is one of the best potentially habitable worlds found to date. SETI Institute researchers are using the Allen Telescope ...

Why Is Life Possible on Earth but Not on Other Planets ... Scientists have identified a few exoplanets that resemble Earth, such as Kepler-452b, which is often called "Earth 2.0" due to its ...

Other features of life on Kepler-452b would be more familiar. For example, the exoplanet orbits a solar-type star at about the same distance at which Earth circles the sun. [Living on Other ...

The planet, known as Kepler-452b, orbits a star similar to Earth ... “That really makes us optimistic that our search for life elsewhere in the universe is not a fool’s errand.” ...

The most promising Earth 2.0 exoplanet found so far is Kepler-452b, which is somewhat larger ... are essential to all known forms of life. Sponk / Roland1952 via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

If a planet is too close to its star, it will be too hot to host life. If it's too far away, it will be too cold. Kepler 452b has been the perfect distance from its star for many billions of years.

should all the necessary ingredients and conditions for life exist on this planet." Kepler-452b's existence was announced with the release of the latest Kepler catalog, which includes 521 new ...

“Today, Earth is a little less lonely,” Kepler researcher Jon Jenkins said. The planet, Kepler-452b, is about 1,400 ... zone – the region where life-sustaining liquid water is possible ...

Kepler-452b is 1,400 light years from Earth. At the moment we can’t be sure whether it has a breathable atmosphere or life on its surface. Some scientists speculate that Kepler-452b has a ...