Additional Quote by Seth Shostak

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

— Debra Fischer

There are several new species that are discovered each year on our planet alone, science suggests that there could be many more worlds like…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life. The primary…

— Debra Fischer

The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world…

— Seth Shostak

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes…

— Peter Sagal

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

— Clyde Tombaugh

Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not…

— Seth Shostak

“More than 619,000 minor planets have been discovered in the Solar System.”

— IP Factly

As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.

— Debra Fischer

Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

— Debra Fischer

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak

Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar…

— John M. Grunsfeld