Solar System and Beyond

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NASAs Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

Posted: 23 Jul 2015 05:16 AM PDT
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na...ousin-to-earth

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.”
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