We tend to assume Earth is a rare cosmic fluke, but a full analysis of NASA’s Kepler data found at least 300 million rocky, habitable-zone planets around Sun-like stars in the Milky Way alone — and that is the conservative count
NASA’s Kepler mission did not detect 300 million temperate rocky planets. It observed a narrow field of stars, found the small fraction of planets whose orbits happened to cross their stars from our…
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