NPR Story
1:00 pm
Fri December 23, 2011

Kepler Telescope Narrows Hunt For Earth's Twin

By tracking the blinking light of distant stars, NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another which orbits its star in the "Goldilocks zone," where liquid water--and possibly life--could exist. Principal investigator William Borucki talks about the newly discovered worlds.