The most interesting discovery has been made by the NASA’s Kepler spacecraft astronomers.
On Tuesday, they had made announcement that they had discovered a pair of planets the size of Earth orbiting a distant star.
However, out of the two new planets that has been discovered, one seems to be as big as Earth and the other slightly smaller than Venus.
The astronauts declared its results in an online news conference Tuesday that the new planets are the smallest planets yet found beyond the solar system.
In their amazing discovery’s report, Astronomers said the discovery showed that Kepler could indeed find planets as small as our own and was an encouraging sign that planet hunters would someday succeed in the goal of finding Earth-like abodes in the heavens.
David Charbonneau who was a member of the team that made the observations, led by colleague Francois Fressin, said, “We are finally there.” Read more
