{"id":208487,"date":"2025-03-12T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/four-small-planets-found-orbiting-the-closest-single-star-to-earth"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:36:56","slug":"four-small-planets-found-orbiting-the-closest-single-star-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/four-small-planets-found-orbiting-the-closest-single-star-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Four small planets found orbiting the closest single star to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/four-small-planets-found-orbiting-the-closest-single-star-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each is calculated to be just 20 to 30% the mass of Earth and completes one full trip around the star in only a few days.<\/p>\n<p>These findings have caught many people\u2019s attention because they point to greater precision in detecting smaller, more elusive planets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really exciting find \u2013 Barnard\u2019s Star is our cosmic neighbor, and yet we know so little about it,\u201d said Ritvik Basant, Ph.D. student at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Chicago<\/a> and first author on the study. \u201cIt\u2019s signaling a breakthrough with the precision of these new instruments from previous generations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each is calculated to be just 20 to 30% the mass of Earth and completes one full trip around the star in only a few days. These findings have caught many people\u2019s attention because they point to greater precision in detecting smaller, more elusive planets. \u201cIt\u2019s a really exciting find \u2013 Barnard\u2019s Star is our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208487","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=208487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}