The Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009 to explore planets outside our solar system (known as exoplanets ... with names like Kepler-452b or Kepler-4b. Eventually, the telescope ran ...

Some scientists believe we're most likely to find life outside of Earth if we look beyond our solar system ... That is, until now. Kepler 452b will forever be remembered as the first, second ...

Our planet’s magnetic field also shields us from harmful solar radiation ... a few exoplanets that resemble Earth, such as Kepler-452b, which is often called "Earth 2.0" due to its similarities ...

Kepler-452b is about 6 billion years old, marginally older than our solar system. The five planets of Kepler-62 orbit a star two-thirds the size of the Sun and only one-fifth as bright. At 7 billion ...