Monumental Extraterrestrial Memes In Search Of Another Earth Is Disclosure Imminent
MAY 10, 2013 - UNITED STATES - The recent discovery of three potentially life-supporting alien planets has caught the eye of Congress, which held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries on May 9 on Capitol Hill.

The space and research subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives' Science, Space and Technology Committee met at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) Thursday for a joint hearing titled "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Image released April 18, 2013.

CREDIT: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

The proceedings was webcast live; you can follow the House exoplanet hearing here on SPACE.com.

The hearing's charter states that its main purpose was to review the April discovery of Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Kepler-69c, three "super-Earth" exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life as we know it. As their names suggest, all three were spotted by NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope.

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