Astronomers Find Five Rocky Planets Around a Small Red Dwarf, Including a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone

Astronomers Find Five Rocky Planets Around a Small Red Dwarf, Including a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) detected three rocky planets around the M-dwarf L 98-59 in 2019. While two are expected to be hot, rocky worlds, the third could be covered by a global ocean. A fourth planet was discovered in 2021, and now, additional study has revealed a fifth planet, a super-Earth in the star's habitable zone.

Is there life out there? Scientists have discovered a "super-earth" planet that may have the right conditions - World Stock Market

One of the biggest unanswered questions in science remains: there are aliens, and if so, where are they hiding? Researchers may have taken a huge step towards answering the question as they identified a “super-earth” planet that may be habitable, using NASA’s Tess Space Telescope, according to Dailymail. The planet, named L 98-59 F, is one of the five… worlds that revolve around a red dwarf star named L 98-59, which is 35 light-years away from E…