Earth’s ‘Bigger, Older Cousin’ Discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission [VIDEO]

But don't plan a visit anytime soon as it's more than a thousand light years away. It's being called the Earth's "bigger, older, cousin," and it's orbiting a star very similar to our sun.


NASA scientists announced the discovery of the planet at a teleconference on Thursday morning, July 23rd, 2015 and it's being called Kepler-452b. It's similar to the earth's and it's in a habitable zone.

CTV tells us:

"Habitable planets are able to host water as a liquid because they orbit far enough from stars that it won't evaporate, but close enough it won't freeze.

In addition to looking for planets orbiting in habitable zones, scientists are looking for terrestrial planets, which are similar in size to earth, and for planets with rocky surfaces.

Now let's search for extraterrestrial intelligence as we sometime have a hard time finding it here on planet earth.

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