20 Jun Nasa Has Located 10 New ‘Earth-Like’ Planets

In a world that appears to all intents and purposes to be tip-toeing toward existential disaster, it is tempting to avoid musing on questions that might have terrifying answers.

Questions of our own mortality, not even as individuals, but as an entire species, as humanity staggers from crisis to epidemic with scary regularity, have become more pertinent and in need of answer than ever before in recent years.

Indeed, one of our greatest scientists, the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, recently claimed that it would be strongly advisable for mankind to pack up its belongings and leave the blue planet we call Earth with all haste. Hawking estimates it will be necessary for us to colonise another planet in the solar system within the next 100 years if we’re to survive. He cites nuclear war, overpopulation and epidemics as very real dangers that could lead to the demise of planet Earth in the relative blink of an eye.

Perhaps as a consequence of this stark prediction, human kind has stepped up its efforts to colonise Mars, presumably in a bid to secure our continued existence as a species. Elon Musk and his company SpaceX have committed themselves to this lofty goal, and NASA are also thought to be advancing their own plans to render Mars a habitable reality.

Meanwhile, though, NASA believe that they have discovered 10 Earth-like planets, and 219 new planets outside our solar system.

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