A team of amateurs has discovered evidence for 42 alien planets,
including a Jupiter-size world that could potentially be
habitable, by sifting through data from a NASA spacecraft. Forty
volunteers with the crowd-sourcing Planet Hunters project
discovered the new planet candidates, which include 15
potentially habitable worlds and PH2 b, a Jupiter-size planet
that the team confirmed to be in the habitable zone of its
parent star. This is the second time Planet Hunters project,
which is overseen by Zooniverse, has confirmed a new exoplanet
discovery. What's more, several candidate planets found by the
project may be in the habitable zones of their parent stars.
These candidates are awaiting confirmation by professional
astronomers. Researchers suggested this bonanza of planets in
the so-called Goldilocks zone around a star, a habitable zone in
which conditions are liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface
and potentially supportlife, could mean there is a "traffic jam"
of worlds where life could exist, proje