"We were finding quite a few Earth-sized things, but not very much smaller than that," said Thomas Barclay, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and first author of the 2013 paper ...
NASA’s Kepler space probe has discovered the smallest planet yet orbiting a Sun-like star. Dubbed Kepler-37b, the exoplanet orbits the star Kepler-37 about 210 light-years from Earth in the ...
Another day, another planet, right? Astronomers have discovered 861 new planets beyond the solar system. Most are the large, Jupiter-sized variety because they're easiest to detect. A few are ...
The rocky little planet is likely devoid of atmosphere. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered the smallest planet yet found orbiting a star like our sun. Kepler-37b is so small, in fact, that ...
NASA's Kepler spacecraft, patiently measuring the light of distant suns to find the tell-tale dimming caused by the passage of unseen planets, has discovered a solar system 210 light years from Earth ...
The discovery of a strange new world about the size of Earth's moon has shattered the record for the smallest known alien planet, scientists say. The newfound alien planet Kepler-37b is the first ...
The newly detected world is smaller than any of the solar system’s planets and just a bit larger than our moon A newfound world called Kepler 37 b could easily blend in to the long and growing list of ...
Astronomers with NASA's Kepler mission announced today that they have discovered a new planetary system that is not only the one of the smallest they've found so far, but it contains the smallest ...
The discovery of a strange new world about the size of Earth's moon has shattered the record for the smallest known alien planet, scientists say. The newfound alien planet Kepler-37b is the first ...
NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called ...
The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-066&cid=release_2013-066 PASADENA, Calif. – NASA's ...
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