20 potentially habitable Earth-like planets discovered
Posted on: 05/Aug/2016 12:44:09 PM
Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Powerful telescope and camera are fitted in Kepler.
Nasa`s Kepler telescope has been finding over 4,000 new planets outside our solar system over the past three years.
Physicists of NASA searched through the list Kepler had returned to find those most likely to support life like our own.
They found 216 Kepler planets are located within the habitable zone.Of those, they list 20 that are the best candidates to be habitable rocky planets like Earth.
