Nearby star hosts closest alien planet in the 'habitable zone'
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 22:30
in Astronomy & Space
Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years away. The planet, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061.