How incredibly COOL! 2.5 times the size of earth, temperature about 22 degrees Celsius (toasty!). Now we just need those faster than light particles they may have "possibly but not definitively but it'd be cool if they were real" discovered at CERN to be put into a warp drive, and we are THERE! Who's with me?

Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed



And someone's already imagining what it looks like on the ground in a very sparkly way.

Also, did you know that we live in the Age of Fanfiction? According to a couple of movie critics, we do. I'd be curious what you all thought of this article -- as to whether it's true or not:

This is the original blog in HitFix, and this is the short abbreviated version, as nicely summed up by the IFC blogger.