NASA Kepler’s Hall of Fame: Small Habitable Zone Exoplanets
![NASA Kepler's Hall of Fame: Small Habitable Zone Exoplanets](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kepler_hall_of_fame_jan2015_profileS.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
January 6, 2015
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Of the more than 1,000 verified planets found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars' habitable zone. All eight orbit stars cooler and smaller than our sun. The search continues for Earth-size habitable zone worlds around sun-like stars.