CCP Games' "Eve Online" allows spacefaring online players to search for exoplanets in the virtual universe to learn more about what's outside our solar system.

This particular scientific project was developed by a collaboration between CCPGames, the University of Geneva, the University of Reykjavik, and Michel Mayor, 2017 Wolf Prize for Physics winner and discoverer of the first exoplanet.

"We were thrilled to see the successes of our first foray into citizen science, in which EVE players have been voracious contributors to the database of the Human Protein Atlas," said Executive Producer Andie Nordgren of "EVE Online" in a statement."In searching for the next dataset for our massive player community to tackle, the stars aligned for players to have the opportunity to directly contribute to the search for new planets with a world-renowned scientific team."

Nordgren added that the traveling around a virtual universe in search of planets can be found in science fiction, but will soon become science fact.

The company's statement said that the previous Project Discovery by CCPGames yielded excellent outcomes in just a short measure of time. In the second iteration, players found over 25 million classifications of human cells and submitted the information over to the Human Protein Atlas.

The results of the previous project proved that the gaming community of "EVE Online" has massive interest in real-life science. Players have been found to form teams in search of new discoveries, and the game's entire community has been recognized as one of the largest groups of citizen science contributors around the globe.

According to Mashable, there is still no exact date when the second iteration of Project Discovery in "EVE Online" will arrive in the game. More details are likely to be disclosed by Mayor during the EVE Fanfest which will take place in April 2017 at Reykjavik.