The curious minds at What If explore life on Kepler 69c if it exists, imagining the alien landscapes, climates, and potential ...

On April 18, scientists announce the discovery of three Earth-like planets potentially suited for life. Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Kepler-69c are three unique examples among the total 122 confirmed ...

This artist's rendering shows Kepler-69c, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun, located about 2,700 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Astronomers ...

Kepler-69c's speed and distance from its star make it more analogous to Venus than Earth, and it's larger than the Kepler-62 planets, at 1.7x Earth-size. It's not necessarily as well-suited to life, ...

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...

The super-Earth Kepler-69c orbits its sun in a galaxy far, far away. I remember when its discovery was announced. The news headlines on April 18, 2013, declared the existence of an “Earth-sized Planet ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope is busted and it may never work normally again. But during its four years of exemplary service, the planet-hunting telescope provided astronomers with an unprecedented ...