NASA's Kepler space telescope, launched almost two years ago in an Earth trailing Solar Orbit, has detected an entire solar system around a star similar to the Sun designated Kepler-11 about two thousand light years from Earth.

Five of the planets, ranging from 2.3 to 13.5 times the mass of the Earth, are orbiting [...]

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NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star.

The transit signatures of two distinct Saturn-sized planets were seen in the data for a sun-like star designated "Kepler-9." The planets were named Kepler-9b and 9c. The discovery incorporates seven months of [...]

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