NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanets
33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date (AFP Photo/)/ Washington (AFP) - NASA revealed Monday 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life. The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets -- planets outside of our solar system -- that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy. Ten of the new discoveries were orbiting their suns at a distance similar to Earth's orbit around the sun, ...
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