NASA’s Kepler space telescope finds 12th Earth-like planet. “Today, Earth is a little less lonely.” Jon Jenkins, Kepler scientist The NASA Kepler mission/telescope was launched in 2009. Its goal was to find habitable planets in the Milky Way. The Kepler space telescope is now 64 million miles from Earth. It has found 1,000+ planets, 12 of them potentially habitable. The …
