NASA’s Kepler satellite team has announced the discovery of five planets around the star Kepler-62. These aren’t just any planets, like the hundreds and hundreds of others already discovered by Kepler (a new one is discovered practically every week—there’s even a free iPhone app that notifies you when a new one is discovered). Two of these planets, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, are terrestrial planets in the Goldilocks region and are similar in size to Earth, making them potentially habitable. The planet is located in our galaxy, about 1,200 light-years away.
