US EditionNearby Super-Earth HD 20794 d Identified as Potentially Inhabitable
- A "Super-Earth" named HD 20794 d has been identified as potentially habitable by experts at the University of Oxford.
- The planet is located 20 light-years away and has a mass six times that of Earth, orbiting in a star's habitable zone.
- Researchers believe HD 20794 d could sustain water, which is essential for life, despite its elliptical orbit.
- The discovery is based on two decades of observations and was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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'Super Earth': the exoplanet in the 'habitable zone' for alien life
"If extraterrestrials do exist, scientists have found a promising location for where they could be hiding," said the Daily Mail. Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to sustain liquid water, which is vital for life, as we know it, to exist."Best of all," added the Mail, it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising possibility" of being…
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myscience.orgA super-Earth laboratory for searching life elsewhere in the Universe
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their characteristics, with the aim of finding life elsewhere in the Universe. This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team. The new planet lies in an eccentric orbit, so tha…
'Super-earth' which could sustain life discovered just 20 light years away
A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – was spotted by Oxford University scientists orbiting in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun, 20 light-years away from our solar system. It is believed …
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