Super-Earth planet zips through the habitable zone of red dwarf star - Space.com

The newly discovered exoplanet is 37 light-years from Earth and was found by astronomers using a new instrument on the Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i.

Astronomers have discovered a 'super-Earth' orbiting a red dwarf star just 37 light-years from our solar system.  The exoplanet Ross 508 b skims the so-called habitable zone of its parent star, th… [+4065 chars]

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