June 20, 2017

The Kepler mission's exoplanet candidates (Image NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel)

At a press conference, NASA presented the new catalog of exoplanet candidates produced thanks to the observations of its Kepler space telescope. Exoplanet candidates are a total of 4,034 of which 2,335 have been confirmed as actually existing. There are 219 new candidates, of which 10 might be similar to Earth and at the same time be in ​​their solar system’s habitable zone.