NASA Discovers Smallest Alien Planet Yet

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space

NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen outside our solar system – a rocky world measuring just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory.

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