The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone—a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the ...

Kepler-186f orbits an M dwarf star in the constellation Cygnus. More importantly, it's the first confirmed Earth-size, potentially habitable planet elsewhere in the universe. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

Kepler-186 and the Solar System: The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The five ...

Scientists studying the planets dancing around distant stars have found big planets and small ones, burning-hot planets and icy-cold planets. But in their search of other solar systems, astronomers ...

“Kepler-186f” confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun. Anyone who knows anything about space, knows that planets that can sustain life like ...

Technicians working inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center look over the Kepler spacecraft soon after it arrived in Florida in preparation for launch. [Read ...

The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The five planets of Kepler-186 orbit a star ...