Daily Archive: September 29, 2010

Sep 29 2010

Potentially Earth-like exoplanet found, and other science bits

The most Earth-like planet yet has been found orbiting a red dwarf star within the Goldilocks zone (wherein liquid water can exist at the surface). It is tidally locked with its star, and it has gravity enough to maintain an atmosphere, being a mere 20%-50% larger than Earth. A paper detailing the find by Vogt …

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