'Too Warm'

NASA's Kepler extrasolar-planet finder has discovered its first Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star, but while its composition is rocky like Earth's, its 8.5-hr. orbit means the planet is far too warm to lie in the habitable “Goldilocks zone.” Designated Kepler-78b, the new planet is “a...

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