Kepler planets tagged posts

This graphic shows where a planet can be habitable and warm around our sun, as it ages over billions of years. Credit: Cornell University

The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using Kepler telescope) are ~11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, such initially frozen worlds could be the size of Earth and could even provide habitable conditions once the star becomes older. Astronomers usually looked at middle-aged stars like our sun, but to find habitable worlds, one needs to look around stars of all ages.

In their work, Ramses M...