Earth Size

Kepler has discovered the most Earth-like planet yet
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone.Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech

The NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope team have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone”. The habitable zone, also known as the “Goldilock zone”, is the area around a start where planets (or satellite) are in the right range of temperature to posses liquid water on their surface. A condition we […]

18 April 2014