The Kepler space telescope is surely the gift that keeps on giving. After being deployed in 2009, it went on to detect a total of 2,335 confirmed exoplanets and 582 multi-planet systems. Even after two of its reaction wheels failed, it carried on with its K2 mission, which has discovered an additional 520 candidates, 148 of which have been confirmed. And with yet another extension, which will last beyond 2018, it shows no signs of stopping!
In the most recent catalog to be released by the Kepler mission, an additional 219 new planet candidates have been added to its database. More significantly, 10 of these planets were found to be terrestrial (i.e. rocky), of comparable in size to Earth and orbited within their star’s habitable zone – the distance where surface temperatures would be warm enough to support liquid water.
Read more here: http://www.theeventchronicle.com/media/informational/nasa-announces-10-thats-right-10-new-planets-stars-habitable-zone/
master @zeroshiki ........I do not believe there is another planet that can be inhabited other than this earth ,,, do you believe ,,, ??? If there had been another palanet that could be in addition to the earth must have been there from humans who lived on another planet, because thousands of planets that scientists find but no one planet that proved to be in place.
Awesome
always fascinated by anything related to space. I wonder how long it would take for us as a civilization to reach any of these planets. Furthermore, I hope we are able to make these advances before blowing ourselves up in a nuclear war :P
Whoa
Check out these four planets orbiting their star "129 lightyears from Earth".
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