New Earth-Size Planet Found Around Nearby Star
The potentially habitable world is called Ross 128b, and it sits just 11 light-years away.
There’s a new Earth-size planet on the block, and it’s the closest potentially habitable world that orbits a “quiet” life-friendly star.
Discovered just 11 light-years away, Ross 128b circles a small, dim star called a red dwarf. Red dwarfs are everywhere, making up about 70 percent of all stars in the galaxy; most of the stars in our immediate neighborhood are red dwarfs.
Based on the rate of planetary discovery over the past several years, astronomers estimate that one out of every three red dwarfs will have at least one planet in its orbital embrace. (This one red dwarf hosts a whopping seven Earth-size planets.)
Technically, the closest Earth-size planet to us is Proxima b, which circles the red
