NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has just discovered 10 new planets that are very much like earth and could support life.
All of the planets in the latest group orbit stars that are like our own sun, all are about the size of earth, and all lie within the “Goldilocks” orbital zone—not too close to the star to be too hot, or to far to be too cold. This brings to 50 the number of planets we’ve found that meet this description.
Since NASA’s last data unveiling, the Kepler Space Telescope has found 219 planets that are candidates for supporting life. The latest discovery seems to indicate an even greater statistical likelihood that we aren’t alone in the universe.
So far, the 4,034 potentially habitable planets NASA has found lie within only 1% of our Milky Way galaxy, which itself contains billions of stars. There are millions of other galaxies within the reach of our telescopes—although some are so far away that we see them as they were billions of years ago, not as they are today.
- Log in or Subscribe to post comments.