Arlington, Va. – The world’s preeminent planet hunters have discovered the most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet: a possibly rocky world about 7.5 times as massive as the Earth.

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An Earth-like extrasolar planet could harbor extraterrestrial life. ... The extrasolar planet is about 150 light-years away, 1.5 times the size of Earth, ...

Despite the fact that Earth-like planets have not yet been found, ... The history of extrasolar-planet discoveries around ordinary stars reaches back to 1995, ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

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Including Earth-based telescopes, more than 600 extrasolar planets have been found to date. But most of them are huge Jupiter-class worlds orbiting well outside the habitable zone.

While this planet is more like the gaseous Saturn, the fact that it’s there means there’s a good chance earth-sized planets may also exist in systems like Kepler 16b.

Arlington, Va. - The world's preeminent planet hunters have discovered the most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet: a possibly rocky world about 7.5 times as massive as the Earth.