NASA: First Earth-Size Planets Found Outside Our Solar System

NASA on Tuesday revealed that its Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.

"This discovery demonstrates for the first time that Earth-size planets exist around other stars, and that we are able to detect them," Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said in a statement.



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