Kepler-78b, which orbits the Kepler78 star about 700 light years from the Sun, is roughly the same size as the Earth with a similar density and mass but too hot to sustain life, an article in ...
According to Nature, 2013 brought the 71-year-old planet hunter a particularly gratifying discovery, when his group determined that the planet Kepler-78b is the most similar in density and size to ...
A team of scientists, including Harvard Lecturer in Astronomy David W. Latham, discovered Kepler 78b, a planet outside of our solar system that is a “virtual twin of Earth by astronomical ...