Astronomer find two Earth-size planets

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 17:00 in Astronomy & Space

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- NASA says its Kepler space telescope has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.

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