A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
LIVE NOW: Ask us anything about newly revealed exoplanet Kepler-1649c. This Earth-size, habitable zone planet was found hidden in early data from our Kepler mission.