NASA Finds 1,284 Alien Planets, Biggest Haul Yet, with Kepler Space Telescope

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered 1,284 new exoplanets, including nine rocky worlds that might be capable of supporting life as we know it, astronomers announced today (May 10). This is by far the largest haul of alien planets ever unveiled at one time.

The total exoplanet tally now stands at about 3,200, and Kepler has found 2,235 of them, NASA officials said “We now know that exoplanets are common, most stars in our galaxy have planetary systems and a reasonable fraction of stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets,” Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said – READ MORE