NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”
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This artistic concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun.
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Kepler’s search for an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun
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Kepler’s newest planetary find joins a pantheon of planets with similarities to Earth.
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Kepler-452b: Earth’s Bigger, Older Cousin
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Scale comparison of the Kepler-452 System and the solar system
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Of the 1,030 confirmed planets from Kepler, a dozen are less than twice the size of Earth and reside in the habitable zone of their host star.
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Twelve new Kepler habitable zone planets less than twice the size of Earth surface
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NASA mentor-protégé agreements between Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Alabama, and Alabama State University of Montgomery, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will be signed during ceremonies at 1 p.m. July 27 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
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Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will crash test a small plane Wednesday, July 29, to test the performance of five emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) installed onboard.
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