First Earth Sized Planet That May Hold Water

 

 NASA announced this thrusday that it has confirmed for the first time the existence of an Earth-like planet that may hold liquid water.

The planet is Kepler-186f and was discovered with NASA’s Kepler telescope, originally launched in 2009 and recently crippled , but not before gathering enough data , the researchers are still working in getting maximum data for this planet.

Scientists Have Found That Kepler 186f May Hold Water And Life Is Possible On THis Planet . Kepler-186f is the fifth and outermost planet circling the M dwarf star Kepler-186 in the Milky Way, about 500 light years away in the constellation Cygnus.

According to NASA, the planet has a shorter year and might be a little cooler that is depended on his atmosphere. It orbits its sun once every 130 days . According to the scientists the planet will receive third part of sun energy as compare to earth receive sun’s energy — that puts it near the outer edge of the habitable zone.

While it will be a while before humans can start building building on this Earth cousin ( Kepler 186f) , it won’t be long before we start to have a better idea how common planets like Kepler-186f are in the universe. The discovery of Kepler-186f is a significant step toward finding worlds like our planet Earth .

NASA’s Astrophysics Division director, said in a release. that in Future NASA missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the James Webb Space Telescope, will be trying to discover the nearest rocky exoplanets and determine their composition and atmospheric conditions to know whether is life is possible on those exoplanets or not.