{"id":158482,"date":"2023-02-19T08:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-just-uncovered-two-earth-like-alien-worlds-covered-in-water"},"modified":"2023-02-19T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:22:43","slug":"scientists-just-uncovered-two-earth-like-alien-worlds-covered-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-just-uncovered-two-earth-like-alien-worlds-covered-in-water","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Uncovered Two Earth-Like Alien Worlds covered in Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-uncovered-two-earth-like-alien-worlds-covered-in-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists\u2019 insatiable search for finding another planet that could support human life has just got a leg up following the discovery of two Earth-like alien worlds. Both the spatial bodies have a mass similar to that of Earth and have been found in the habitable zone of a star so far known as GJ 1002. The star is one of the dwarf stars referred to as M dwarfs, which are stars that have only a fraction of the Sun\u2019s mass and luminosity.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made by scientists working at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain. Astrophysicist Vera Mar\u00eda Passenger explained to Science Alert that GJ 1,002 was a \u201cdwarf\u201d star with a mass only one-eighth that of the Sun. \u201cIt is quite a cool, faint star. This means that its habitability zone is very close to the star.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists\u2019 insatiable search for finding another planet that could support human life has just got a leg up following the discovery of two Earth-like alien worlds. Both the spatial bodies have a mass similar to that of Earth and have been found in the habitable zone of a star so far known as GJ 1002. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158482","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}