715 New Alien Planets Discovered Orbiting 305 Stars
February 26 2014
ScienceCasts: A Sudden Multiplication of Alien Planets!
Facinating discoveries explained in this professional video.
NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft. Some of the new worlds are similar in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars.