Earth-sized planets found in Habitable zone

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone. Up to 54 new potential planets were found in the habitable zone. Five of the planets are the size of Earth, while the remaining 49 planets are larger than Earth, but smaller than Jupiter. Kepler also found six planets orbiting a sun-like star, Kepler-11.Scientists will conduct follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets. So far Kepler has identified 1,235 planets, of these, 68 are approximately Earth-size.

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