A new study in Nature suggests that habitable planets may orbit billions of stars in the Milky Way.

The six year study used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way and concluded that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception.

Keith Horne is professor of Astronomy at St Andrews University and explains what they found.

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