Astronomers have determined that the planet Kepler-10c, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope back in 2011 and thought to be a gas giant, is actually solid, making it an unprecedented ...
Just like that we have 219 new exoplanet candidates of which 10 are near-Earth size and orbiting in the habitable zone of their host suns. That's the latest haul from the Kepler space telescope team.