NASA's Kepler Mission Announcment

Today I went to a web site called ScienceDaily and found out that NASA's Kepler mission announced the discovery of 715 new planets. These new planets orbit 305 stars, showing multiple planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost 4x the size of Earth. This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.