{"id":144180,"date":"2022-08-16T00:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/there-is-a-highly-habitable-planet-just-4-light-years-from-us-study-suggests"},"modified":"2022-08-16T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T08:00:01","slug":"there-is-a-highly-habitable-planet-just-4-light-years-from-us-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/there-is-a-highly-habitable-planet-just-4-light-years-from-us-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"There is a \u201cHighly Habitable\u201d Planet Just 4 light years from Us, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-is-a-highly-habitable-planet-just-4-light-years-from-us-study-suggests3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nearby exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of a star just 4.2 light-years from Earth may be home to a vast ocean, boosting its chances of supporting life. Since its discovery, questions about the conditions at the surface of Proxima b have been swirling; the planet\u2019s mass is just about 1.3 times that of Earth\u2019s, and the red dwarf star it circles is similar in age to our sun.<\/p>\n<p>Studies over the last few years, however, have both bolstered hopes of its habitability and shot them down. Now, a new study has once again raised the possibility that Proxima b could support life, suggesting that under the right conditions, the exoplanet could sustain liquid water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nearby exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of a star just 4.2 light-years from Earth may be home to a vast ocean, boosting its chances of supporting life. Since its discovery, questions about the conditions at the surface of Proxima b have been swirling; the planet\u2019s mass is just about 1.3 times that of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144233,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144180\/revisions\/144233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}