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Male let's call him frank. here he is on the screen. he weighs about 175 pounds or 80 kilograms. we determined on kepler 452b, the new, quote unquote habitle plan fete he would weigh roughly two times what he would weigh here on earth because gravity is about two times as strong. with all of that gravity weighing down on him it won't take long for him to walk around the planet and shed that weight osks. this particular planet is fascinating because it's so far away. but it's also met unique criteria being similar to earth. that is it is similar to earth's size. it rotates around a sun-like sta...

We weigh twice as a much right? >> there's a lot of problems on this planet. we might need a back up option. >> kepler 452b, that's where i will meet you guys next. >> fascinating. >> thank you, derek. >> thank you for watching cnn i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. ♪ how's it progressing with the prisoner? he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. as you were... where were we?

Here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: in the world of astronomy, this is the holy grail, the nearest thing yet to another earth, kepler 452b circling a sun slightly brighter than our own, the discovery the second big news in a week from nasa. [ cheers and applause ] last week mission control burst into cheers as nasa's new horizons gave us a close-up view of pluto, including an animated flyover of pluto's icy mountains and plains. this new earth from the kepler space telescope launched six years ago. kepler's mission, to find what astronomers sometimes called goldilocks planets, where condit...

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Than a billion years older. but it's the distinct similarities between the planets which have nasa scientists extremely excited. it's located within the so-called habitable zone. just like our planet kepler 452 b sits in an area around a sun-like star where water can exist on a planet's surface. the year 385 days long e and nasa says there's every chance its surface is rocky. all of these qualities adding up to a potential recipe to broad life. >> 20, 30 years from now we will tell signatures of life and atmospheres of these planets. >> as for getting anywhere near this potential earth 2.0, pr...