NASA: Billions of Habitable Planets in Milky Way
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered four new planets that are less than twice the size of Earth and which orbit in their star's habitable zone.
It's found 461 new planets in all between May 2009 and March 2011, bringing the total number of potential planets to 2,740, orbiting 2,036 stars. The biggest jump was in the number of Earth-size and super Earth-size candidates discovered, which grew by 43 and 21 percent respectively.
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Next up: The Free Planet Project.
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Have planets moved to IPv6 yet?
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I saw some show on the Science Channel a few years back about some scientist in Mexico doing research into faster-than-light soace travel. Which makes me wonder, if the Mexicans get their hands on warp drive, will they start illegally immigrating to other inhabited planets and start some kind of incident?