New Planet Found 600 Light Years Away by NASA Kepler Telescope: Is It Earth-Like and Habitable?
This part in particular is something that I had never considered, and it completely amazes me:
In less than 20 years, we have gone from not knowing if any other planets exist in the universe, to being able to look out at the night sky and realize that essentially any star we can see has at least one planet, and a good number of those are likely to be habitable