NASA makes ‘windfall’ discovery of 715 new planets
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope has confirmed a record-setting bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system, nearly doubling the count of exoplanets discovered to around 1,700. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 per cent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times… Read more →
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