New Planet-finder Shows Its Power: Kepler Orbiting Telescope Should Soon Find Alien Earths
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 21:14
in Astronomy & Space
The first results are in from the Kepler orbiting observatory, the world's most powerful planet-searching telescope, and they show that the instrument should have no trouble detecting "alien Earths" -- planets that are about the size of our own.