NASA discovers 95 new planets outside the Solar System
Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of 95 new planets outside our Solar System after studying 275 possible candidates found by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Launched in 2009, Kepler has identified more than 5,000 candidate exoplanets so far, from which over 2,500 have been confirmed. In 2014, astronomers bypassed a mechanical failure on the spacecraft, and named its second mission 'K2'.