Tagged: Earth-like planets

Last week at the latest TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, astronomer Dimitar Sassilov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a distinguished member of the Kepler space telescope [1] science team, unveiled some incredible results gathered by our eyes and ears in the galaxy. Kepler’s most...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a nearly Earth-sized planet in the “habitable zone” around a star not unlike our own According to BBC News, “The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and models...