NASA's Kepler mission is being run to discover possible habitable planets, and they announced this week that they just discovered "six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately 2,000 light years from Earth."
Kepler has done an amazing job so far too. Among several hundred new planet candidates are 54 habitable zone worlds, of which five are "near Earth-sized". The remaining 49 are "range from super-Earth size – up to twice the size of Earth – to larger than Jupiter".
YOu can check out the rest of the Kepler story at these two links:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ke...ry_system.html
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011...er_Update.html
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