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NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System

Kepler • Project News • February 1st, 2011

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars...

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet

Kepler • Project News • January 10th, 2011

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by...

NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System

Kepler • February 1st, 2011

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's...

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet

Kepler • January 10th, 2011

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered...