Kepler Discovers Earth-size Exoplanets

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 07:50 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant sun-like star. These alien worlds are intermingled in their star system with other much larger planets, an arrangement which challenges orthodox ideas of how planets are formed.

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