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 ...

The existence of the distant exoplanets, called Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, was unveiled during a NASA press conference today (April 18). The two worlds are perhaps the most promising life-hosting ...

Two of the worlds, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f are the smallest exoplanets yet found in a habitable zone, and they might both be covered in water or ice, depending on what kind of atmosphere they ...

Kepler-62f is potentially an Earth-like planet about 1,200 light-years from our planet. The world is only 1.4 times bigger than Earth and is in orbit around a star that is somewhat dimmer and ...

Kepler-62e is less of a sure thing ... which evaluates the chances for life on every discovered exoplanet, disagree. The lab ranks 62e as the most Earthlike world ever found.

Exoplanet researchers use something called ... t plan on having their friends and family over any time soon. Kepler-62e and Kepler-442b are like siblings. Both orbit K class stars that could ...

The hunt for exoplanets is one of the hottest fields ... Two of its five planets -- Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f -- are so-called super-Earths with a radius of 1.6 and 1.4 times that of Earth ...

Launched in 2009, the Kepler spacecraft is tasked with finding exoplanets orbiting other stars ... have been found orbiting it and two, Kepler-62e and 62f, lie within the star’s habitable ...

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered three "super-Earth-size" exoplanets that are close enough to their stars to make them possibly suitable for water. Two of the planets (Kepler-62e and Kepler ...

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 ...

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

The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer and closer to its expanding star until they collide, obliterating the first exoplanet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The discovery offers ...