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Nasa's kep lar's spacecraft has spotted a planet that is bigger and older. >> for more on this interstellar discovery, here is our joe. >> hello, earth, this is your long lost cousin in the sear. for a world like ours a break through for star gazers from a galaxy far far away. this is kep lar 452 b. distant relative a little larger, 60% bigger to be exact and more than a billion years older. but it's the distinct similarities between these planets which have nasa scientists extremely excited. it is located within the so-called habitable zone. just like our planet it sit in the area around a su...

Male let's call him frank. here he is on the screen. he weighs about 175 pounds or 80 kilograms. we determined on kepler 452b, the new, quote unquote habitle plan fete he would weigh roughly two times what he would weigh here on earth because gravity is about two times as strong. with all of that gravity weighing down on him it won't take long for him to walk around the planet and shed that weight osks. this particular planet is fascinating because it's so far away. but it's also met unique criteria being similar to earth. that is it is similar to earth's size. it rotates around a sun-like sta...

Than a billion years older. but it's the distinct similarities between the planets which have nasa scientists extremely excited. it's located within the so-called habitable zone. just like our planet kepler 452 b sits in an area around a sun-like star where water can exist on a planet's surface. the year 385 days long e and nasa says there's every chance its surface is rocky. all of these qualities adding up to a potential recipe to broad life. >> 20, 30 years from now we will tell signatures of life and atmospheres of these planets. >> as for getting anywhere near this potential earth 2.0, pr...

Space telescope to find the plan etc.. they're both as you mention about the size of earth, maybe a little bit smaller. there are a couple reasons there could be or could have been life there at some point. one, both planets orbit around a sun just like we do and two, there is a possibility that one of them, the larger of the two was formed with water which is of course pretty essentially if there is going to be any life of the study is coming out in the journal nature. it comes two weeks after a separate report that scientists found a very large planet, 10 times the size of earth, orbiting in...

a new week and new shake-up for the battle for the presidential nomination. newt gingrich is now the solid front runner in the state of iowa. but today his focus was on new york. and a meeting with donald trump. let's go to new york. there's jim acosta following this for us. what's the latest with newt gingrich the front-runner and donald trump? >> well, he is in the big apple and you can say he is singing new york, new york, start spreading the newts. he his message he is can win the republican nomination. he is willing to take this battle to all 50 states. at a news conference in n...