NASA’s Kepler Telescope Spys Earth-like World

I am a bit fascinated by the whole outer space discovery thing. I loved the New Horizon Pluto hype. This latest discovery from NASA is pretty darn intriguing too.

According to NASA.GOV:

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”

This world, named Kepler 452b, is about 60% larger than Earth and is located about 1,400 light-years from our planet. Scientists think that the planet's host star, a cousin of the sun, is about 10% brighter than our star and 4% larger, marking the first time an Earth-size world has been found orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.

I realize at 1,400 light-years away, we won't be going there anytime soon but the fact the planet exist is pretty amazing. Could there be life on this planet?