Three ‘Super Earths’ spotted orbiting nearby star

[Mike Wehner]

• Scientists have discovered a potential trio of Earth-like worlds orbiting a star that is a mere 11 light-years from us.
• The star is a red dwarf, and the planets may lie within the star's habitable zone.
• Future telescope technology could reveal whether these planets have atmospheres and potentially even life.

As far as we know, there's only one "Earth" out there in the cosmos. Researchers say the odds of there being intelligent life on some distant planet are good, even within our own galaxy, but before we meet E.T. we need to find the worlds on which it lives. Now, researchers say they've spotted a nearby star that appears to host not one, not two, but up to three so-called "super Earths."

The research, which was published in Science, holds a lot of promise, but we don't yet possess the technology to view these Earth-alikes in greater detail. Nevertheless, researchers are gearing up to determine exactly what these large rocky planets offer.

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