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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...