An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of nearly 100 new exoplanets — planets located outside our solar system.
The discovery was based on data from the second mission of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope or K2 released in 2014.
K2 searches for exoplanet transits by registering dips in light caused by the shadow of an exoplanet as it crosses in front of its host star.
The researchers found that some of the signals were caused by multiple star systems or noise from the spacecraft.
But they also detected planets that range from sub Earth-sized to the size of Jupiter and larger.
One of the planets detected was orbiting a very bright star.