{"id":218942,"date":"2025-07-29T04:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/this-super-earth-exoplanet-35-light-years-away-might-have-what-it-takes-to-support-life"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:13:54","slug":"this-super-earth-exoplanet-35-light-years-away-might-have-what-it-takes-to-support-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/this-super-earth-exoplanet-35-light-years-away-might-have-what-it-takes-to-support-life","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018super-Earth\u2019 exoplanet 35 light-years away might have what it takes to support life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cFinding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting,\u201d Charles Cadieux, a postdoctoral researcher at the university and lead author of the study, said in the statement. \u201cIt highlights the remarkable diversity of exoplanetary systems and strengthens the case for studying potentially habitable worlds<\/a> around low-mass stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

L 98\u201359 f was discovered by reanalyzing data from the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO) HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) and ESPRESSO<\/a> (Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) spectrographs. Since the exoplanet doesn\u2019t transit, or pass in front of, its host star from our perspective, astronomers spotted it by tracking subtle shifts in the star\u2019s motion that are caused by the planet\u2019s gravitational pull.<\/p>\n

By combining the spectrograph data with observations from NASA\u2019s TESS<\/a> (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> (JWST) \u2014 and using advanced techniques to filter out stellar noise \u2014 researchers were able to determine the size, mass and key properties of all five planets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFinding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting,\u201d Charles Cadieux, a postdoctoral researcher at the university and lead author of the study, said in the statement. \u201cIt highlights the remarkable diversity of exoplanetary systems and strengthens the case for studying potentially habitable worlds around low-mass stars.\u201d L 98\u201359 f [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218942","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}