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Date- 26th Feb 14 Source- science.nasa.gov/science-news/sciencecasts

'NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft. Some of the new worlds are similar in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars.'

More info- planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov