Astronomers call the most promising of these places "Goldilocks planets, " because they orbit in a temperate zone not too hot and not too cold to support liquid water essential for carbon-based life as we know it.
"What's particularly interesting is four new planets - less than twice the size of Earth - that are potentially in the habitable zone, the location around a star where it could potentially have liquid water to sustain life, " Dr Burke told BBC News.
The astronomers who will use these telescopes are particularly interested in finding any Earth-like objects in the so-called habitable zone around a star, where temperatures permit water to exist in a liquid state.