On Thursday, July 23, NASA will host a teleconference in which it will share new discoveries made by its Kepler Space Telescope, which aims to find habitable planets. In 2009, the telescope was launched with an aim to locate exoplanets.

Since the time of its discovery, Kepler has made more than 1,000 confirmed discoveries. With every passing day, the telescope has been expanding its limits about exoplanet finding in space and to look out for earth-like planets.

As per experts, it is the first NASA mission that aims to find out earth-sized planets that orbit distance stars in or near habitable zone. For now, the complete details of the teleconference are not known. But, it is being expected that announcements of newly found planets.

The teleconference will be attended by Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California; Jeff Coughlin, Kepler research scientist at SETI Institute in Mountain View, California; John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington and Didier Queloz, professor of astrophysics at Cambridge University.

The teleconference will start around 9am PDT on Thursday, July 23. A spokesperson for NASA affirmed, "Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years -- another Earth". In 1995, the first exoplanet was discovered which was orbiting another star.