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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

New 'Mega-Earth' Means Habitable Worlds Could Be Even Closer

New data on a planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope back in 2011 has helped scientists to determine that Kepler-10c is actually a new type of planet — a huge, rocky “mega-Earth” that shouldn’t be able to exist according to most planet formation theories.

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