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Searching For Life On Other Planets

NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
A comparison of the Kepler-37 system's planets, to our moon and the planets in our solar system

We now have evidence of hundreds of planets orbiting other stars – and that’s just in our little corner of the Milky Way. But are any of these planets Earth-like? Could they be …habitable?

Today on River to River, a conversation with astrophysicist Steve Kawaler of ISU.  He’s working with NASA’s Kepler Mission. We’ll talk about the mission’s amazing discoveries.

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Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River