Sentences with phrase «sized planets around distant stars»

The Kepler Mission has detected the possible transits of several hundred potential super-Earth - and Earth - sized planets around distant stars (more).

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.