NASA planet discovery: Kepler space telescope finds 1,284 new planets in our galaxy - TomoNews

WASHINGTON — NASA's Kepler mission, launched in 2009 and with two more years to go, has detected 1,284 new exoplanets, including nine worlds that may be able to sustain life.

NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which searches for planets in our Milky Way that lie up to 3,000 light years from Earth, has verified 1,284 new planets. Five hundred and fifty appear to be rocky based on their size. Of these 550, nine are located just far enough from their suns to suggest they may contain water.

The latest finding nearly doubles the number of confirmed exoplanets and is the largest number of new planets announced at one time, reported Space.

According to NASA's statement, the new findings can be credited to a computer simulation and a new statistical method that takes into account such factors as how many total stars are in our galaxy.

The total number of exoplanets discovered now stands at 3,200. A total of 21 of these may be habitable. The Kepler mission shows that with at least 70 billion stars in our galaxy, there may be billions of habitable, Earth-sized planets out there that have yet to be discovered.

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[SnoopingCommentGoblin]

Okay, very very interesting.

Now can we discover proper space travel now? I want to visit these planets before I die, damnit.

[Ryukai]

To NASA. Sign me up to explore those planets.

[Lunamere]

Pretty cool, wish I could see them with my own eye's.

[toppdoggs]

I wan't to see an alien before I die!

[Dajen_Tk]

And I bet there isnt life on a single one of them.

[manny]

There has to be life in one of those planets . Man the Galaxy and this earth and oceans are so fascinating to me

[interstellarbruce]

would it be considered amoral to just send some eggs, and sperm there to be incubated, and raised by robots.

[stonewall]

Soon they will discover Planet Vulcan and Kronos. I just hope the Klingons don't discover us.

[JustSomeGoy]

The more we look the more we'll find....ain't no God out there

[mohdazrin]

from black galaxy to colorful galaxy level sky

[jkNJFK]

Wow, Ingorance is still alive. I love people. Keep it Going...!

[MrPonytron]

Gallifrey exists and the Time Lords are out there

[anthony-ysnz]

There so sure that planets look like that...WE HAVENT EVEN SEEN THE ONE WE ARE ON AND ITS 2016 I've had yet to seen a real view of EARTH

[myracampbell]

Would you be considering exchanging links?

[amadsyria]

wow 3000 light years from the earth so we can found life there ??

[triavang]

And if the same planet passed the scope multiple times? Light does take a long, long time to travel to us fron there.

[ddcmeathead]

wow a field of vision that stretches 30 light years? WTF. It was launched in 2009 and is orbiting the sun that is 93 million miles away. The sun is moving through the galaxy at what 127 thousand KM and some how this satellite was able to catch it. Use your common sense. Or just keep on spinning on the ball.

[annalmadin]

We already beginning to discover those new planetsGod made everythingWe'll never know what's gonna happenIn future

[assyria]

i shall explore all these planets on No Mans Sky.. lol

[HardKore]

We are in a simulation all aliens dead.