Nasa's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet In Habitable Zone Of Sun-Like Star

By Michele Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center on Dec 5, 2011   Science/Education  

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. […]