The European Commission has done its best to highlight the role played by the EU in the discovery of the seven Earth-like exoplanets. Three of these planets are possibly habitable and are part of the Aquarius constellation. The Commission explanation follows the sensational announcement made by the US agency, NASA, on Wednesday 22 February.
With NASA’s much-publicised announcement made at the end of the day of the discovery made by its Spitzer telescope, the Commissioner for Research,...