Though much further away than other exoplanets possibly conducive to life—Gliese 581g is only 20 light years from us–Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f are the smallest exoplanets the Kepler Mission ha ...

[9 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life] The ... skywatching events and more! 3. Kepler-62e As its name suggests, Kepler-62e was discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope.

Kepler has spotted more than 2,700 potential exoplanets to date ... including the recently announced Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, but all of them are slightly larger than Earth.

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

has identified the top 12 potentially habitable exoplanets based on an Earth Similarity Index (ESI). Their top choice is Kepler 62e, with an ESI value of 0.83 (an ESI of 1.0 would be a 100 % match ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However ...

making it the exoplanet closest to the size of our planet known in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-62f is likely to have a rocky composition. Kepler-62e orbits on the inner edge of the ...

But exoplanet hunting really kicked into high gear with the advent of space-based planet-hunting telescopes like NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions. Now, new missions from NASA and ESA (European ...

They then compared the occurrence rates of these planets using data from NASA's TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, for the younger population and from Kepler for the older population.

Researchers have known about the existence of three exoplanets – the term for planets outside our solar system – within the Kepler-138 system but have only just discovered two of them are ...