Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the things scientists still don’t know about Kepler-22b, from atmosphere to surface ...

This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a ...

Kepler-22b is one of the most famous exoplanets ever discovered, a super-Earth sitting in the habitable zone of its star, 600 light-years away. But what would actually happen if humanity somehow ...