October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... itself. So we hoped that this was just ‘normal behaviour’ for reaction wheel 4. An artist’s impression of the surface of Kepler-452b. With a radius 60% larger than Earth, the planet has a better than even chance of having a rocky composition...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... solar flares to jolt the chemistry forward step by step. Presently, several planets detected by the Kepler telescope, including Kepler 452b, a planet that has been nicknamed Earth's 'cousin', reside in a zone favourable to these conditions I.e they...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... of Earth making contact with intelligent life. A potentially “Earth-like” planet out there, which is what Kepler 452b is alleged to be, will obviously generate a more-than-usual amount of discussion on the possibility of discovering life, even...
23 July 2015
Exoplanet Kepler 452b and what the search for a real life “Another Earth” means for human self-perception
... water on its surface – and Kepler 452b may very well have that. Crucially, Kepler 452b has spent billions of years orbiting within...of all the hype that has, inevitably, erupted around Kepler 452b’s discovery – its importance has little to do with our...
04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
... to give other worlds. When a possible “Earth 2.0” was discovered recently by scientists, it was given the prosaic name of Kepler 452b. An fascinating recent study of the effect of cosmic wind on a galaxy had to contend with the fact that said...
