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Cool, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star


Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow transit in the archival data from NASA’s Kepler extended K2 mission.

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