It's Looking More and More Likely We Are Not Alone

NASA announced today that an additional 1,284 exoplanets had been discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, more than doubling the number of known alien planets.  And it is increasingly obvious that exoplanets are actually quite a common phenomenon. Included in these numbers is an additional nine "habitable zone" exoplanets where conditions might exist for the presence of water and life as we know it, bringing that number to 21. The chances that some form of life exists beyond this planet just keep getting greater and greater.