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 ...

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 ...

Scientists detected water vapor on a potentially habitable planet last month — a major step in the hunt for alien life. The discovery ... an exoplanet called Kepler-452b as Earth's "bigger ...

The exoplanet Kepler-452b (R), as compared with Earth ... a common ancestor more than 2 billion years ago, the diverse forms of life emerged from a chaotic process that would not be exactly ...

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 ...

Hundreds of new planets, spotted by Nasa's Kepler telescope ... has already led to speculation about its ability to host forms of life. David Shukman reports.

Kepler-452b won’t do. How about Krypton ... that could support at least plant life and possibly more advanced life forms. This could be the solution we have been looking for.

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 ...