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The 18 newly-discovered exoplanets (orange and green) are much smaller than Neptune, three of them even smaller than Earth and two more as large as Earth. Planet EPIC 201238110.02 is the only one of the new planets cool enough to potentially host liquid water on its surface. Image credit: NASA / JPL / NOAA / GSFC / Suomi NPP / VIIRS / Norman Kuring / Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research / René Heller.

Astronomers Discover 18 New Small Exoplanets in Kepler Data

May 28, 2019 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Georg August University of Göttingen and Sonneberg Observatory has...