Discover a set of three planets that may have life

Through the Kepler telescope, American scientists have discovered Earth's trio of warm planets with at least one potentially habitable planet.

According to the International Business Times on January 18, the planets revolve around EPIC 201367065 - a red dwarf star in the Goldilocks region, also known as the "green belt" and a habitable zone.

US scientists say they have just discovered a set of three potentially habitable planets orbiting a red dwarf star - (Photo: NASA)

EPIC 201367065 is located about 150 light-years from Earth and is about half the size of the sun. The three orbiting planets have dimensions of 2.1, 1.7 and 1.5 times the size of the Earth, respectively.

Erik Petigura - a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and a member of the research team said in the trio, the smallest planet is much more like Earth.

It has a radius of about 1.5 Earth radii and receives light from a parent star similar to Earth receiving light from the Sun.

Now the team is continuing to examine the data and analyze it to make it clearer about the planet.

Earlier in January, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) also claimed to have discovered the most Earth-like planet ever called it Kepler 438b.

Kepler 438b is about 12% bigger than the Earth, located in the constellation Lyra, 470 light years away. It is in the orbit of an orange dwarf and hotter than Earth by receiving about 40% more heat than the Earth receives from the Sun.