Astronomers Discover Closest Earth-Sized Exoplanet Yet: A Whopping 70 Light-Years Away!

NASA's Kepler and TESS missions have made a groundbreaking discovery - an Earth-sized exoplanet just 70 light-years away! The newly confirmed exoplanet, named K2-415b, is three times more massive than our home planet and orbits its star every 4.018 days. With a radius of approximately 1.015 Earth radii and an estimated temperature of 400 K, this exoplanet is a prime target for future atmospheric characterization studies. Don't miss this exciting update in the search for extraterrestrial life!

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[mandygershon]

Do we not have any yellow dwarfs we could check out? Or even K-type stars?

[leifgustafsson]

That close to the star ? Doesn't that mean it is probably tidal locked ?

[lizbethartemis]

spending billions to find another planet, but nations are not taking care of our earth. 🌎

[rudolfvreeburg]

just 79 light years away, how long will be the flight time on our fastest spacecraft?? must we be happy!?

[Leopez]

Its so awesome scienthists and James Webb Space Telscope founds New exoplanets fast But those planets are always too far away...

[BulukEtznab]

I wonder what kinda star is in that system this time though?

Last one was a Red Dwarf and it was too close - since those kinda stars are somewhat too active blasting their systems with solar flares of greater magnitudes (= Cosmic Rays, that kill all Life).

Also: isn't mass also directly correlated to Gravity somehow? Would that mean, that we'd be 3 x heavier there than here on Earth (like a constant force of 3G acceleration)?

So, until I know what kinda star's in that System and the surface temperature of 200K sounds a little "hot" to me, too...not a nice new "Home" without Terra-Forming it in the reverse way we've done here on Earth, our Home-Planet.