(CNN Report) -- In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets.
Scientists announced Thursday, April 18, 2013, the discovery of three planets that are some of the best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our own solar system -- and they're very far away.
NASA's Kepler satellite, which is keeping an eye on more than 150,000 stars in hopes of identifying Earth-like planets, found the trio.
Two of the planets -- Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f -- are described in a study released Thursday, April 18, 2013, in the journal Science. They are part of a five-planet system in which the candidates for life are the farthest from the host star.
The host star -- the equivalent of Earth's sun -- takes the name Kepler-62, where the individual planets are designated by letters thereafter.
A third planet that's potentially habitable, but not included in the Science study, is called Kepler-69c. A study about it and its system is published in The Astrophysical Journal.
These are the smallest planets ever found in the "habitable zone," the area near a star in which a planet can theoretically hold liquid water. Kepler-69c seems less clearly in the habitable zone than the other two planets, but scientists haven't ruled it out.
When Betty and Barney Hill was captured and examined by aliens in the 1960s, Betty memorized a star map on the wall of her examining room. At that time no one knew that planets outside our solar system existed. Some of the stars on the map was not known to Earth Astronamers until the 1970s and 1980s. Now we are starting to find out that planets are all over the Milky Way Galaxy. Recently, we found out Earth like planet are numerous thoughout this galaxy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/earth-like-planets-alien-kepler-water_n_3111448.html
See what the Huffington Post has to say about the new planets.
Here is the report by MSNBC on this subject.
NASA: Twin planets, perfectly habitable, just discovered by world scientists:
(http://news.msn.com/science-technology/nasa-twin-planets-perfectly-habitable-just-discovered#tscptme)'
Stan Friedman the famous UFOLOGIST will give a lecture at the convention, "Man's Place in the Universe."
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