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NASA detects light from super-Earth
NASA scientists have, for the first time, seen the light from a planet outside our solar system that's a similar size to the Earth. read more
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'Our galaxy is loaded with planets': Nasa finds 60 planets and 11 new solar systems - all from a fist-sized patch of sky
Diagrams of the multi-planet systems detected by the Kepler space telescope: The planets range in size from 1.5 times the size of Earth to ones bigger than the gas giant Jupiter NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered 11 new pl... Read Post
Nasa space telescope finds 'twin' of Earth orbiting a distant Sun-like star - 20th Dec 2011
A rocky planet the same size as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a star like our sun. It is the first time a planet of this size has been detected in another solar system. Scientists have hailed the technical achievement of de... Read Post
NASA mission finds first rocky planet outside our solar system
There goes the celestial neighborhood. Scientists at the Kepler mission have discovered a rocky planet outside our solar system, NASA announced Monday. The exoplanet, called Kepler-10b, is 1.4 times the size of Earth and is the smal... Read Post