Most Earth-like planets may be a comfortable home for alien life.
The planet, named Kepler 438b, slightly larger than Earth and orbits the orange dwarf which gives it 40% more heat than the sun to Earth.
Kepler 438b makes a complete revolution around its star every 35 days, making the year on the planet are 10 times faster than on Earth.
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Bobby Boring
We took the money spent on wars and used it for space research? We are going to need a new planet soon.
tc123
That would be amazing. Its one thing to be able to say the planet is the same size and distance as earth, but if astronomers could do spectroscopy we would know that there's water or even organic compounds on these planets.
Sleeping Dwarf
They have been building up to this for a while. Not a 'conspiracy theorist' but there has been an incremental drip feeding of information for a while. Leading to the big one maybe!