Apr 21
There may be another contender for most Earth-like exoplanet found so far. New measurements of Gliese 581d’s orbit indicate a range where conditions would be right for liquid water, and thus life as we
know it, Geneva University in
Switzerland astronomer Michel Mayor announced today, according to National Geographic.
“It lies in the [life-supporting] habitable zone, and it could have an
ocean at its surface,” Mayor said at the European Week of Astronomy
and Space Science conference, which is taking place at the University of
Hertfordshire in the U.K.
this week.
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