earth-like planets, exoplanets, gaia mission, kepler telescope, nasa

How Many Habitable Planets Are Out There?

Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy. Some could even be pretty close, with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. The findings will be published in The Astronomical Journal, and research was a ...

Troy Oakes

This illustration depicts Kepler-186f.