Cape Canaveral (Florida): NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, rocketed into space on Friday night on a historic voyage to track down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way galaxy.
It’s the first mission capable of answering the age-old question: Are other worlds like ours out there?
Kepler, named after the German 17th century astrophysicist, set […]

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