Kepler 186f

Humanity's most advanced telescopes have begun to confirm distant planets circling their stars within the habitable zone. Use a conservative definition of what makes a potentially habitable planet, and these 7 exoplanets still make the grade.

The Kepler-186 system consists of 5 known planets circling a red dwarf star. The 5 planets have sizes ranging from 1.0 - 1.5 Earth-radius and orbital periods of 3.9 - 130 days. All 5 planets are probably rocky, since planets with large hydrogen-helium gas envelops tend to be larger than 1.5 - 2.0 Earth-radius. Of particular interest is Kepler-186f, the fifth planet in the system. Kepler-186f is the first confirmed Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone around another star. Its detection…

Kepler -186f

Kepler-186f is the most habitable planet every discovered by scientists, just near enough to its own star and just the right size to host life.

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Kepler-186f by Alexander Forssberg.

At last humans are able to make educated guesses about what living on alien worlds might be like.

Astronomers have found many planets orbiting distant stars. The next question to ask: how many of these distant worlds have the ability to support life?

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