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by Josh Marshall

05.16.13 | 4:45 am

This artist rendering released Monday Jan. 7,2013 by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the different types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy detected by NASAâs Kepler spacecraft. A new analysis ... This artist rendering released Monday Jan. 7,2013 by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the different types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy detected by NASAâs Kepler spacecraft. A new analysis of Kepler data found there are at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth. MORE LESS

NASA’s Epic search for other earth-like planets in our galaxy may have come to an end as the Kepler telescope, orbiting the Sun, 40 million miles from Earth, has broken down with no fix in sight.

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Josh Marshall is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TPM.

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