NASA's Kepler space telescope has found the 12th potentially habitable Earth-like planet called Kepler-425b.

NASA Finds Earth’s Cousin

Shaun Keating NASA, News Feather Story 2015

NASA’s Kepler space telescope finds 12th Earth-like planet.

“Today, Earth is a little less lonely.” Jon Jenkins, Kepler scientist

NASA's Kepler space telescope has found the 12th potentially habitable Earth-like planet called Kepler-425b.

  1. The NASA Kepler mission/telescope was launched in 2009.
  2. Its goal was to find habitable planets in the Milky Way.
  3. The Kepler space telescope is now 64 million miles from Earth.
  4. It has found 1,000+ planets, 12 of them potentially habitable.
  5. The newest one, and most promising, is called Kepler-425b.
  6. It is 1,400 light-years away and 60% bigger than Earth.
  7. It is in the “habitable zone” of its star & could have water.
  8. Its star is very similar to our sun but is 1 billion years older.
  9. Kepler-452b could be a rocky planet with twice Earth’s gravity.
  10. Kepler-452b has 385 days in its year.

Sources: CNN. Washington Post.

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