NASA Has A "Huge Announcement" To Make - Here's How You Can Watch Live

This could be it folks!

NASA is set to announce the major discovery of a new planet by the Kepler Space Telescope tomorrow (July 23) at noon EDT (5 p.m. BST), and you can watch it live below.

Today we know that Earth is just one of hundreds of billions of planets in our galaxy, itself just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies.

But while this knowledge might seem commonplace, it is rather incredible to remember that the first planet outside the Solar System was not discovered until 1992 – and then only by accident.

Since then, thanks to an array of telescopes we have a greater understanding than ever of some of the exoplanets found elsewhere in the universe – from fascinating hot Jupiters that orbit their stars in days to Earth-sized planets in habitable zones of red dwarfs – but we are yet to find a true Earth 2.0, namely an Earth-sized world around a Sun-like star.

"Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years – another Earth," NASA teased in a statement. The live stream below will reveal the discovery tomorrow at a news conference at noon EDT (5 p.m. BST).

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