Mission possible: Kepler offers hope

AS many readers will know, two earth-like planets were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission just before Christmas.

The discovery of a reachable earth-like planet could scarcely be more timely as we deplete our remaining energy sources while simultaneously seeming incapable of safely developing non-renewable resources.

Science Now reports, “Astronomers have found a planet smack in the middle of the habitable zone of its sunlike star, where temperatures are good for life.”