NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

A team of planet hunters has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone."

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/...1_feature.html

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