Thursday, April 18, 2013

Kepler Discovers Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date


Source - NASA Science News for April 18, 2013

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.

The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/18apr_habitablezone/

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