Saturday, December 12, 2009

Looking for alien Earths? Here they come
[ Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:11:48 GMT ]

The Kepler and COROT probes are designed to find extrasolar planets by detecting the slight dip in starlight as the planet passes over the star's disk. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown talks with science editor and author Alan Boyle about planetary discoveries. (msnbc.com)Scientists are gearing up to reveal a new wave of extrasolar planets, including some of the weirder worlds beyond our solar system.


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