US space agency NASA has announced the discovery of a ‘super-Earth,’ a planet that might support life and is located 137 light-years away. Dubbed ‘TOI-715 b’, it is said to be about one and a half times as wide as Earth “A ‘super-Earth’ ripe for further investigation orbits a small, reddish star that is, by …
Super-Earth – a planet that is about 30 to 70% bigger than our planet – has recently been spotted by a NASA telescope orbiting Earth. The Super-Earth or exoplanet TOI-715 b, which is about 1.5 times the size of Earth, is in another solar system 137 light-years away. NASA said, “That’s the distance from the …
NEW DELHI: US space agency Nasa has made the discovery of a “super-Earth,” a planet potentially capable of supporting life, situated 137 light-years away. In a press release Nasa stated, “A ‘super-Earth’ ripe for further investigation orbits a small, reddish star that is, by astronomical standards, fairly close to us – only 137 light-years away. …