"Kepler-138 b is roughly 3,000 times less massive than the first exoplanet whose density was measured 15 years ago," Ford said. "We now are working to discover and characterize rocky planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars."

The Kepler spacecraft continues to search for planets and to explore the cosmos as part of a new mission, known as K2. Both K2 and NASA's upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite missions will hunt for planets transiting brighter stars that will be more easily studied by ground-based observatories such as the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) and the Miniature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)."

http://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports...r_138b_999.html

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