Earth’s Twin Is On The Cusp Of Being Discovered

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a sucker for Battlestar Galactica (while these days I merely mix my sci-fi metaphors. Boldly.) Anyway, Earth’s twin is due to be discovered this year – says Michael Mayor.

The exciting deed will not be done by a behemoth of a spaceship, helmed by a man with bad skin, bad glasses but still unutterably sexy, but by the Kepler spacecraft. Professor Mayor, an astronomer at Geneva University, was speaking at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence anniversary, at London’s Royal Society. Whether there’ll be a spin-off miniseries after the planet is discovered, however, remains to be seen. [Newser]