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Kepler-62f: Kepler's first small planet in the habitable zone, but is it real?

Hedges, Christina; Agol, Eric; Borucki, William +1 more

Kepler-62f is the first exoplanet small enough to plausibly have a rocky composition orbiting within the habitable zone (HZ) discovered by the Kepler Mission. The planet is 1.4 times the size of the Earth and has an orbital period of 267 days. At the time of its discovery, it had the longest period of any small planet in the habitable zone of a mu…

Discovery of the first Earth-sized planets orbiting a star other than our Sun in the Kepler-20 system

Torres, Guillermo; Fressin, François

Discovering other worlds the size of our own has been a long-held dream of astronomers. The transiting planets Kepler-20 e and Kepler-20 f, which belong to a multi-planet system, hold a very special place among the many groundbreaking discoveries of the Kepler mission because they finally realized that dream. The radius of Kepler-20 f is essential…