ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2011) — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun.
...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0202133321.htm
From the Astronomy Picture of the day:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html