NASA’s Kepler mission discovers hundreds of new planets
The largest is Wasp-17b, which has a radius of about 100,000 km compared to Earth’s 6,000 km.
NASA’s deep-space Kepler probe has found hundreds of new planets — many similar to earth — sparking new hope of life outside our solar system.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Sunday that in six weeks of operation, the spacecraft has found five new solar systems in the Milky Way and identified more than 700 bodies that could be new planets.
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