Today, NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft. Some of the new worlds are similar in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4hHt3bxaGQ
FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/26feb_multiplication/
