{"id":201703,"date":"2024-12-16T00:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/there-may-be-6-billion-earth-like-planets-in-our-galaxy-alone-scientists-make-stunning-estimate"},"modified":"2024-12-16T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:26:52","slug":"there-may-be-6-billion-earth-like-planets-in-our-galaxy-alone-scientists-make-stunning-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/there-may-be-6-billion-earth-like-planets-in-our-galaxy-alone-scientists-make-stunning-estimate","title":{"rendered":"There may be 6 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, scientists make stunning estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-may-be-6-billion-earth-like-planets-in-our-galaxy-alone-scientists-make-stunning-estimate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could there be billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy? A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) estimates that the Milky Way might host as many as 6 billion planets similar to Earth. This calculation is based on data collected during NASA\u2019s Kepler mission, which observed over 200,000 stars from 2009 to 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could there be billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy? A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) estimates that the Milky Way might host as many as 6 billion planets similar to Earth. This calculation is based on data collected during NASA\u2019s Kepler mission, which observed over 200,000 stars from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}