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Scientists pinpoint how many planets in the Milky Way could host life – Inverse
Based on data from the Kepler and Gaia missions, a new study estimated that there are 300 million potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way.
The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion planets.
And scientists are hell-bent on finding which ones might harbor life.
Our galactic neighborhood may be bustling with other worlds, but a new study estimates that a mere 300 million of those 100 billion planets may have the right ingredients for life.
And some of them may be closer than we think.
The study, published on preprint server ArXiv and accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, provides perhaps the most reliable estimate of…
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