video

1,284 New Planets Beyond The Solar System Are Discovered,So Amazing!

Staff Reporter
First Posted: May 12, 2016 12:38 AM EDT

The Kepler mission has discovered 1,284 planets, the most exoplanets announced at one time, according to Princeton associate research scholar Timothy Morton during a NASA press conference. This more than doubles the number of previously confirmed planets from Kepler.

See Now: NASA's Juno Spacecraft's Rendezvous With Jupiter's Mammoth Cyclone

More on SCIENCEwr