1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope - NASA

MIAMI: NASA announced Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of exoplanets found with the Kepler space telescope.

“This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington.