New, Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting Other Stars NPR's Noah Adams and NPR's Ira Flatow, host of Talk of the Nation Science Friday, discuss the discovery of the smallest planets outside of our own solar system. The newly discovered objects, at only 20 times the mass of our own planet, are the most Earth-like planets spotted to date.

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New, Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting Other Stars

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New, Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting Other Stars

September 2, 200412:00 AM ET

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NPR's Noah Adams and NPR's Ira Flatow, host of Talk of the Nation Science Friday, discuss the discovery of the smallest planets outside of our own solar system. The newly discovered objects, at only 20 times the mass of our own planet, are the most Earth-like planets spotted to date.