NASA discovers new Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone

NASA had previously discovered three other planets in the same system, one of which was also in the habitable zone.

[xevilace]

Just how lucky we are to be alive is a crazy thing to think about.

It seems like the idea of life forming anywhere in the universe at all is so ridiculously rare it's like an error or flaw, as if it wasn't even meant to happen, but someone or something, against all odds, pulled the most absolute hail-mary for us to experience life.

[TheExoplanetsChannel]

*Hopefully soon we will detect a breathable atmosphere.*

[tjjones]

People there- "Oh, no... they found us!"

[darthzeltroth]

Okay, but what do we do if we ever actually go to one of these planets and it's already inhabited by another sentient species. That would be awkward wouldn't it?

[michaeldennis]

So crazy us as humans are just finding these planets, so much to unlock to our Gino’s it’s quite scary.

[TurnupAC]

It would have been just as useful to find a planet that wasn't earth sized but still be earth like

[WmovedOn]

It’s distance from earth unfortunately makes this kinda irrelevant, it would take an insane amount of time to reach it

[natedog]

Why so excited? It’s not like we’re gonna go there soon😭

[shanti]

I wonder if they take in account the temperature of the star and if that affects the habitable zone
Or if they’re just only referring it as a similar zone that earth is from our sun
Either way this is awesome!

[lawrenceterrell]

Maybe this is the planet my wife came from because I will never understand her.

[skunkface]

So what, we don't have any way of going there. Maybe some day we will figure out a way to get there faster, but for now it is too far away.

[justafidemyself]

I feel like this news should be a bit bigger than it currently is lol, seem like we've all collectively decided to ignore huge important events in human history ever since 2016 :')

[RonaldKragnes]

@00:43 Even if we hopped aboard the space shuttle discovery, which can travel 5 miles a second, it would take us about 37, 200 years to go one light-year. Therefore, that planet would take approximately 3, 720, 000 years to travel to.

[vitalline]

Pretty old news but yeah if we were to try going, we’d go through generations
Be dope to see new species

[adel-]

Now NASA must develop a way to travel faster than the speed of light .

[emiliobello]

Reminds me of the movie Melancholia with Kristen Dunst

[hannakovenock]

Imagine we’ve achieved time travel and it’s just Earth from the past or future 😮

[misriahproductions]

why is this news? They've been doing this for decades already.

[Jonathan-unuq]

It's name is Vulcan. It lives long and prospers 🖖

[ronaldsosa]

It’s funny that we have ways to some how find these so called “new planets” but haven’t found a way to discover our own oceans here on earth 😂😂😂