Amazing Nasa animation reveals just how close we are to finding life on an alien planet
. Nasa’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 . To date it has found nearly 4,000 potential planets outside the solar system . Its primary goal has been to find a true Earth 2.0, and it is getting closer . Before Kepler we knew of only a handful of so-called exoplanets . Now the telescope is ‘dead in the water’ as its positioning system has failed . But a Nasa scientist has revealed a bold new plan to save the mission By Jonathan O’Callaghan The first planets outside the solar system were confirmed in 1992, uninhabitable worlds around … Continue reading Amazing Nasa animation reveals just how close we are to finding life on an alien planet