PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star ...

Yesterday, we covered the new exoplanet profiles, which were discovered by the Kepler Space Observatory, but we wanted to delve a little bit deeper on the candidates in the Kepler-62 system, the ...

Alien solar system models The study ran computer simulations of the Kepler-62 and Kepler-186 solar systems using to the best data available.

The findings were recently published in the journal Science. The two planetary systems are called Kepler-62 and Kepler-69, with the first being home to five planets and the second being home to two.

The Kepler-62 star is 1,200 light years away; Kepler-69 is 2,700 light years away. A light year, the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, is nearly 6 trillion miles.

In the first system, Kepler-62, the planets orbit a star that is a little older, dimmer and smaller than our sun, called a K2 dwarf, which is located more than 1,200 light-years from Earth (in the ...

One of the 86 stars on the list was an orange dwarf designated KOI 701, now better known as Kepler-62, home to the planetary system announced yesterday.

Kepler has catalogued over 4,000 exoplanet candidates, including 216 in the habitable zone. Now, researchers have analyzed data and narrowed the list down to the 20 best candidates for habitable ...

Kepler-62 e and f: The latest and most Earth-like discoveries, slightly larger and smaller than Earth but in the habitable zone.

The Discovery of Super-Earth Kepler-62F The recent discovery was "incredibly rare," according to the University of Canterbury New Zealand astronomers that discovered the Super-Earth, which is a ...

The potential cancellation of the NASA Kepler satellite mission would mark the end of an unparalleled source of information about planets and planetary systems outside of Earth's solar system, known ...