Thursday, July 23, 2015

NASA Kepler mission discovers 'Earth's cousin'

A planet 14-hundred light-years away is being called the closest twin to Earth.  

Kepler-452b (PRO: four, fifty-two, b) is older and larger than the Earth and is thought to orbit a sun similar to our own. 

Our correspondent in Washington, Kevin McAleese reports

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