Bookmakers may be revising their odds on the question of us being alone in the Universe after scientists revealed that our galaxy could hold billions of habitable worlds. University of California Berkeley and University of Hawaii (UH) astronomers carried out a study using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to provide part of the answer to the question, “How many of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets?” The answer they got back was that one in five sun-like stars may have Earth-size planets that could support life. .. Continue Reading Astronomers say one in five sun-like stars likely to have habitable planets
Section: Space
Tags: Exoplanet, Kepler Mission, NASA, UC Berkeley
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