715 new worlds found - a great discovery indeed!
NASA’s Kepler mission has found 715 new planets at one go. Nearly 95% of them are smaller than Neptune. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
It also brings the confirmed count of planets outside our solar system to nearly 1,700.
Four of these new planets are nearly 2.5 times the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's habitable zone defined as the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of a planet may be suitable for life.
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