Planet-hunting space telescope nets jackpot
Admin | February 8, 2012
(CBS News) NASAs prolific planet-hunting spacecraft has hit the jackpot again, discovering 11 new planetary systems with 26 confirmed alien planets among them. The findings nearly double the number of bonafide planets found outside our solar system by the Kepler space observatory. Prior to the Kepler mission, we knew of perhaps 500 exoplanets across the [...]