Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away ...

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It's several times larger than Earth and 600 light years away, but a newly discovered planet, Kepler-22b, is also said to be 72 degrees--and NASA's Kepler mission has named it as a planet that's just ...

This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the harsh environment and gravity of Kepler-22b, a super-Earth located 600 light-years away that could potentially harbor life within its vast oceans.

Kepler-22b may look like the dream of a second Earth, but the distance turns that dream into a nightmare. At 600 light-years away, this “habitable” world forces us to confront the brutal limits of ...