The Kepler-186 system is home to Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size ... from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f ...

The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.

Any water present on a planet orbiting here can remain liquid, given the right atmospheric pressure. On planets orbiting ...

NASA's Exoplanet Exploration tool lets anyone with an internet connection experience what it might be like to stand on the surface of a ... destinations -- like Kepler-186f, the newest planet ...

Kepler 186f, named after NASA’s Kepler planet-finding mission, is 10 percent wider than Earth (8,700 miles versus 7,918 miles in diameter) and takes only 130 days to complete one full orbit around its ...