Fox News: “More than 4,500 exoplanets have been discovered so far, with only a small portion thought to have the properties to contain life. A new study suggests that the galaxy may actually contain 300 million planets capable of supporting life. The research analyzed data from the Kepler space telescope and found approximately half the stars that have a similar temperature to the sun — plus or minus up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit — could also be orbited by rocky planets with liquid water on their surfaces. ‘Kepler already told us there were billions of planets, but now we know a good chunk of those planets might be rocky and habitable,’ said the study’s lead author, Steve Bryson, in a statement. ‘Though this result is far from a final value, and water on a planet’s surface is only one of many factors to support life, it’s extremely exciting that we calculated these worlds are this common with such high confidence and precision.'”