Hundreds of Possible Alien Planets Found by NASA Spacecraft
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky. Stringent follow-up checks will determine if they are actually extrasolar planets and not false alarms.