First Earth-sized Planets Found
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
, Author: Cătălin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
Astronomers using NASA's Kepler mission have detected two
Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. This discovery marks a
milestone in the hunt for alien worlds, since it brings scientists
one step closer to their ultimate goal of finding a twin Earth.
The paper describing the finding will be published in the
journal Nature.
Please find details on the following websites:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, here.
NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC,
here.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, here.