Ranking Planets Better For Life Than Earth

they would probably all suck.. Ranking Planets Better For Life Than Earth Often called “Earth’s Cousin,” Kepler-452b is probably the first habitable Earth-like planet scientists discovered. It’s basically a Super Earth since it’s 1.6 times bigger than our teeny planet. And for a while, scientists were genuinely excited about this one. One year on Kepler-452b is roughly the same as ours, just with an extra 20 days. But we all know we’d barely get any holidays anyway, so that just means more work hours for us to appease our corporate overlords. It even orbits a Sun-like star at almost the same distance Earth does. On paper, it feels like the closest thing to a twin planet we've ever found. The kind of place where you'd expect to land and see grass. But here's where the fairy tale ends. Kepler-452b's star is about 1.5 billion years older than our Sun, which means it's brighter and hotter. A lot hotter.