NASA mission finds '300 million Earth-like planets' in Goldilocks zone in the Milky Way
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dailystar.co.ukexoplanet passing in front of its home star during the three-and-a-half year mission. When it was launched 11 years ago, William Borucki, an astronomer now retired from NASA's Ames Research Centre said: "It's not ET, but it's ET's home."He spent two decades convincing NASA to take on the project.Before the spacecraft gave out in 2018, it discovered more than 4,000 candidate worlds among those stars.So far, none have shown life or habitation - but they are very far away - but the figure suggests there are billions of exoplanets in the galaxy, reports The New York Times.
A team of 44 astronomers led by Steve Bryson, of NASA Ames, has concluded there is an answer after looking at the data for two years.
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