Habitable Planet

NASA

Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

Editor’s note: This release has been updated to add language about how this discovery relates to the field of astrobiology. A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c,…