{"id":25270,"date":"2016-05-02T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/3-newly-discovered-nearby-planets-are-a-game-changer-in-the-hunt-for-alien-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:00","slug":"3-newly-discovered-nearby-planets-are-a-game-changer-in-the-hunt-for-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/3-newly-discovered-nearby-planets-are-a-game-changer-in-the-hunt-for-alien-life","title":{"rendered":"3 Newly Discovered Nearby Planets Are a Game Changer in The Hunt For Alien Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3-newly-discovered-nearby-planets-are-a-game-changer-in-the-hunt-for-alien-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers has discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets, all orbiting the same star just 40 light-years from us, the 16-nation intergovernmental research organization <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1615\/\">ESO reported on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists have deemed all three planets potentially habitable, an exciting turn in the hunt for \u201cexoplanets,\u201d a term for planets that orbit a star other than our sun.<\/p>\n<p>And it could bring us closer to finding extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/3-newly-discovered-nearby-planets-171000896.html\">http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/3-newly-discovered-nearby-planets-171000896.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers has discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets, all orbiting the same star just 40 light-years from us, the 16-nation intergovernmental research organization ESO reported on Monday. The scientists have deemed all three planets potentially habitable, an exciting turn in the hunt for \u201cexoplanets,\u201d a term for planets that orbit a star other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67592,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions\/67592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}