NASA spotted potentially habitable earth-size exoplanet

  • 14/01/2023

Kuwait City, Jan 14: An exoplanet the size of Earth has been discovered by a NASA mission orbiting a dwarf star about 100 light-years away. The planet 'TOI 700 e' is 95% the size of our planet and is most likely rocky. The object orbiting the tiny, chilly M dwarf star TOI 700 is the fourth planet to be discovered. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS mission, discovered every exoplanet.
The presence of liquid water suggests that the planets may be, or may have been in the past, habitable for life.The discovery of the planet was declared at the 241st annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle on Tuesday.

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