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The Kepler spacecraft, searching far beyond our solar system, has found more than 1,000 possible planets orbiting distant stars, and at least 54 of them are within their suns' "habitable zones," where temperature could support liquid water and potentially life.
"It's very likely that life is common in our galaxy," said William Borucki, chief scientist of the Kepler mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/02/MNAR1HGO6C.DTL#ixzz1CxImHIfD
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