A handout photo released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on 20 July 2015 shows an image taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite that has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. EPA/NASA/DSCOVR/HANDOUT
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- NASA will announce new discoveries made by the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope later Thursday, and that could be "another Earth," U.S. media reported.
At an audio press conference scheduled for 1700 GMT, NASA could "make one of the most significant announcements in inter-planetary exploration since the space race first begun," The Huffington Post said.
In a brief statement about the announcement, NASA claims that it could unveil "something people have dreamed about for thousands of years."
Since Kepler was launched in 2009, the Earth-hunting telescope has been spectacularly earning its money discovering 4,661 candidate planets and 1,028 planets.
