New exoplanet: Big Earth or small Neptune?
Newly discovered Kepler 452b straddles the line between rocky and gaseous
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MYSTERIOUS COUSIN Superearth Kepler 452b is about 1.6 times as big as Earth and orbits a sunlike star in what scientists think is a habitable zone.
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