The scientists said astronauts discovered a new asteroid outside our solar system, is the youngest of more than 800 planet outside the group.
The newly discovered planet, called Kepler -37 BV is one of three planets orbiting a yellow star similar to the sun and is found in a star "Lyra", which lies 210 light-years away. A light-year is equal to about ten trillion kilometers.
Said Thomas Barclay expert at Ames Research Center of the Department of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, "we saw the planets very large, which is rare. And planets the size of Earth are common and so we believe that small asteroids should be more common . "
The smaller the size of the planet, the more difficult to detect.
Kepler discovered -37 me and two other planets Space Telescope NASA of the same name and is studying the light from about 150 thousand a star similar to the sun.
