As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.

There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not life evolves on other planets. We'd especially like to find communicating, technological life, and we look around our own solar system, and we see that of all the planets, there's only one that's inhabited.

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

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