NASA to announce planet-hunting discoveries: report

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. Endi