LONDON: NASA has announced that it will hold a press conference later today to discuss the Kepler space telescope’s latest findings.
The space agency has hinted that it may have discovered another planet orbiting in the habitable zone.
“Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years – another Earth,” the agency said in a press release.
The Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 to assist in NASA’s quest to find exoplanets, with the hope that it would find Earth-like worlds.
The project has been a resounding success already, with 1028 planets already confirmed and over 4600 planetary candidates.
Kepler has also discovered 11 small planets orbiting in the habitable zone – a distance from the host star that could support life.
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