An artistic representation of the surface of the super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, about 6 light years from Earth [ESO/M. Kornmesser]

The Closest Exoplanets to Earth

Almost all orbit around red dwarfs: stars very different from the Sun, smaller, much less bright and generally much more active than the Sun. Some of these planets are located within the habitable zone, which allows the presence of liquid water. There may even be life…

Michele Diodati
Predict
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30 min readJul 14, 2020

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Michele Diodati
Predict

Science writer with a lifelong passion for astronomy and comparisons between different scales of magnitude.