Kepler Mission Search for Alien Worlds --"We May Find Some Surprises Out There"

Kepler Mission Search for Alien Worlds --"We May Find Some Surprises Out There": "As astronomers analyze Kepler Mission data showing 42 planets with orbits entirely within the Habitable Zone in the hunt for the elusive "blue dot" -- a planet with roughly the same characteristics as Earth -- research has revealed that life might actually be able to survive on some of the many exoplanetary oddballs that exist. "When we're talking about a habitable planet, we're talking about a world where liquid water can exist," said Stephen Kane, a scientist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "We may find some surprises out there as we start to determine exactly what we consider habitable.""