Tag: kepler mission

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  NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

  Jul 23, 2015

  NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star.

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  The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size

  Jul 25, 2014

  The size of the exoplanet Kepler-93b is now known to an uncertainty of just 74 miles (119 kilometers) on either side of the planetary body.

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