Kepler Finds First Earth-sized Exoplanet In Habitable Zone

HOUSTON — Kepler-186f, a recent discovery from NASA’s five-year-old Kepler mission, a rocky world 500 light years away, is the first validated, Earth-sized planet detected within the habitable zone of a star beyond the Solar System, an international team of astronomers announced April 17. The find...

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