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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets

posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 27 2014, @10:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-bet-that's-all-of-them-now dept.

kef writes:

"NASA's Kepler mission has doubled the number of known planets outside of our solar system. In what can only be described as a "bonanza", 715 new planets have been reported thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. Using a new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:16PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:16PM (#8104)

    ...the fraction of stars with planets. And the answer appears to be remarkably close to 1, which is to say that planets are not unusual at all.


     
    This plus the recent discovery of atmospheric water vapor on Tau Bootis b [extremetech.com] keeps increasing the probability that we will find life out there.

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