Found: Another star system with eight planets, just like ours

Only a handful of known star systems have more than a single planet. With eight worlds, our solar system has long taken the prize for the biggest lineup. Our corner of the galaxy now shares the record with another system, Kepler 90, NASA and Google researchers announced Thursday. A Google algorithm uncovered a scorcher of a planet, a rock 30 percent larger than Earth, orbiting a star a few thousand light-years away. This planet, Kepler 90i, brought the total number of planets circling its star to eight -- just like our solar system's octuplets.