Nearby Exoplanets Could Harbor 8-Billion-Year-Old Microbial Life
NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring … [+] 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. Kepler-10b an Exo-planet is a scorched world, orbiting at a distance that’s more than 20 times closer to its star than Mercury …