🌍 Exoplanet
Kepler-186 f
The first Earth-sized planet found where water could be liquid.
- Size
- 1.2 times wider than Earth
- A year lasts
- 130 Earth days
- Estimated temperature
- −96 °C
- Distance
- 580 light-years away
- Discovered
- 2014
Did you know?
- Its star is a cool red dwarf, so noon there would look like dusk on Earth.
The latest numbers from NASASize, year, temperature and how it was found, in the app
Photographed or visited by
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
Compare Kepler-186 f with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of Kepler-186 fStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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