Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 10:40
in Astronomy & Space
Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets. For the first time, an international team of astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have detected three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star, just 40 light years […]