{"id":204767,"date":"2025-01-28T17:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/super-earth-discovery-reveals-an-exoplanet-potentially-capable-of-sustaining-life"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:16:59","slug":"super-earth-discovery-reveals-an-exoplanet-potentially-capable-of-sustaining-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/super-earth-discovery-reveals-an-exoplanet-potentially-capable-of-sustaining-life","title":{"rendered":"Super-Earth discovery reveals an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-earth-discovery-reveals-an-exoplanet-potentially-capable-of-sustaining-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their characteristics, with the aim of finding life elsewhere in the universe. This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20,794D by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS.<\/p>\n<p>The new planet lies in an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/eccentric+orbit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">eccentric orbit<\/a>, so that it oscillates in and out of its star\u2019s habitable zone. This discovery is the fruit of 20 years of observations using the best telescopes in the world. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202451769\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p><b>The best of science, now on Instagram! Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sciencex.physorg\/\" target=\"_blank\">@sciencex.physorg<\/a>.\ud83c\udf0d\ud83d\udd2c<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their characteristics, with the aim of finding life elsewhere in the universe. This is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204767","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}