New Earth Like Planets Discovered

NASA has discovered up to 140 earthlike planets in deep space. It had previously been thought that most planets outside our solar system we just giant gas planets like Jupiter. However, in a exploring deep space with the NASA telescope Kepler, over 700 planets were discovered including 140 that we earthlike.

Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets -- including up to 140 similar in size to Earth -- in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.

“The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way [which has more than 100 billion stars] will contain 100 million habitable planets, and soon we will be identifying the first of them,” said Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a scientist on the Kepler Mission. "There is a lot more work we need to do with this, but the statistical result is loud and clear, and it is that planets like our own Earth are out there."

This is exciting news! Now if only we had a president who would support NASA in researching these planets...oh well making the Muslims feel good about themselves is just as important as deep space exploration.