Earth 2.0: China’s Mission to Answer if We’re Alone in the Universe

The Earth 2.0 mission picks up where the Kepler Space Telescope left off.

Artist’s conception of the view from an Earth-like exoplanet. Source: diversepixel, via Shutterstock.

Today, more than 5,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, have been discovered; many of those exoplanets were found thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope. Although it did a great job finding exoplanets, Kepler’s…