The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

"If Kepler-452b is indeed a rocky planet, its location vis-a-vis its star could mean that it is just entering a runaway greenhouse phase of its climate history. The increasing energy from its ...

Because the new planet, Kepler-51e, has not yet been observed ... "Kepler-51e has an orbit slightly larger than Venus and is just inside the star's habitable zone, so a lot more could be going ...

Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope ... with the theory of core-powered mass loss, where a planet's hot core gradually expels the atmosphere.