Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThere may be as many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy - and they could host alien life, a new study has revealed. Jaymie Matthews, an author of the study, said: “Our Milky Way has as many as 400 billion stars, with seven per cent of them being G-type. "That means less than six billion stars may have Earth-like planets in our Galaxy.”According to the researchers, Earth-like planets are more likely to be missed, as they’re so small and orbit far away from their stars. This means that the current ‘planet catalogue’ may only represent a small subset of planets in the Milky Way. (Image: Getty)Michelle Kunimoto, co-author of the study, said: “I started by simulating the full population of exoplanets around the stars Kepler searched.

Source: Daily Mirror June 17, 2020 12:14 UTC