Kepler Spacecraft Spots 5 New Exoplanets
Monday, January 4, 2010 - 19:21
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have filled in more details in the picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, unveiling five previously unknown planets outside our solar system that were detected via early data from NASA's planet-seeking Kepler spacecraft. A team of researchers reported the planet findings Monday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society and in a paper to be published online Thursday in Science . [More]