An artist’s concept of what Kepler-1649c could look like from its surface. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data fromNASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-sizeexoplanetorbiting in itsstar’s habitable zone, t...
One of the planets located by the Kepler telescope was Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet only 1.06 times Earth's radius. Scientists discovered this planet in 2020 while analyzing old observations from Kepler, which had retired in 2018. (Image credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter) Major dis...