Over 100 Earth-Like Planets Have Been Discovered in Last Few Weeks

NASA Earth from Space

More than 100 Earth-like planets have been discovered in the past few weeks by the space telescope “Kepler.”

Kepler was launched in January of last year and has been scanning space for planets orbiting stars ever since.

Most scientists now believe that there are around 100,000 planets in our galaxy alone that could harbour life.

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