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Today, NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planethunting spacecraft. Some of the new worlds are similar in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars.