April 17, 2014: Kepler’s great discovery

On this day in 2014, NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovered the first Earth-sized planet – Kepler 186f – in the habitable zone of a star outside our solar system.

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Wes Platt

Lead storyteller. Game designer and journalist. Recovering Floridian.

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