Astronomers Make Incredibly Rare Detection of Earth-Like Planet 25,000 Light-Years Away0

• From Around the Web, Space
• May 12, 2020

There may be multitudes of Earth-like planets sprinkled throughout the Milky Way galaxy, but they are not so easy to find. To date, only around a third of the over 4,000 exoplanets found and confirmed are rocky – and most of those are within a few thousand light-years of Earth.