For planet hunters, this has been a bountiful year. A team of astronomers at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, has used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to uncover 715 new exoplanets. The newly verified objects orbit 305 different stars and therefore include multiworld systems that are reminiscent of the Sun’s planetary family. The announcement of these discoveries was followed by news that Kepler had also found the first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of its star, Kepler-186f. This is a significant milestone in the task of determining the prevalence of terrestrial planets in the Milky Way Galaxy.