Nasa scientists have discovered an alien solar system that they believe has two planets that are completely submerged under water.
The worlds, dubbed super-Earths because they are rocky and larger than our own planet, are orbiting a star called Kepler-62 that lies 1,200 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra.
Both exist in the so-called habitable zone around their home star where water essential for life as we know it can exist as a liquid.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/19/exoplanet-waterworlds
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