A recent scientific study has found that the galaxy Milky Way is home to Sun-like stars capable of supporting planetary systems similar to our own.
The findings were revealed to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston.
Aside from the above mentioned, the scientists now hold the belief that there are more worlds just outside our very own Solar System waiting to be found.
Michael Meyer, an astronomer from the University of Arizona, commented:
Our observations suggest that between 20% and 60% of Sun-like stars have evidence for the formation of rocky planets not unlike the processes we think led to planet Earth. That is very exciting.
Meyer's team used the NASA's Spitzer space telescope during the said study. The findings, hopefully, will be confirmed when the space mission Kepler is launched next year. The objective of the flight is to look for Earth-like planets in the outskirts of the Solar System.
Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University, California added the following comments, "o my mind there are two things we have to go after; we
have to find the right mass planet and it has to be at the right
distance from the star."
