February 23, 2013

A comparison of the size of the planets of the Kepler-37 system with the Moon, Mercury, Mars and the Earth (Image NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech)

A group of scientists working at the mission of the Kepler space telescope announced that they discovered a new planetary system orbiting the star Kepler-37. So far nothing new considering that this kind of news is coming on a daily basis but this time they discovered a very small planet because Kepler-37b is slightly larger than the Moon.