A Year Of Discoveries For Kepler

Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
For those seeking life-sustaining worlds far, far away, 2011 was a year of discoveries for NASA's Kepler telescope that culminated with images of the first two Earth-size planets observed outside the Solar System. Unfortunately, their orbits of a star much like our Sun are so close that they are...

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