Category: Exoplanets

Discovering Earth-like planets in distant solar systems

Discovering Earth-like planets (exoplanets) in distant solar systems has accelerated dramatically, with astronomers confirming over 6,000 exoplanets and recently detecting an atmosphere on a rocky, temperate world just 48 light-years away. [1, 2, 3] Finding an authentic "Earth twin"—a rocky, right-sized planet with a stable atmosphere and liquid water orbiting…