"New habitable planet found: who's staying who's going?"
Can we vote some people off this island?
What we know about Kepler 452-b:
* It's the smallest exoplanet discovered to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a G2-class star, just like the Earth and the Sun. * Kepler-452b is 60 percent larger in diameter than Earth and is considered a super-Earth-size planet. * It's likely rocky. * While Kepler-452b is larger than Earth, its 385-day orbit is only 5 percent longer. * The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun. * Kepler-452 is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun, has the same temperature, and is 20 percent brighter and has a diameter 10 percent larger. * The Kepler-452 system is located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.