https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/08/24/captain-weve-found-an-m-class-planet/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/08/24/captain-weve-found-an-m-class-planet/#comment-464040 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:19:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22761#comment-464040 […] mass of 1.3 Earth masses, or more, in a 11 day orbit around Proxima Centauri.” The planet is within the red dwarf’s habitability zone, but we don’t yet know if it harbors an atmosphere or liquid water. Greg Laden writes […]

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/08/24/captain-weve-found-an-m-class-planet/#comment-464039 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 05:53:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22761#comment-464039 A planet in an 11-day orbit around a faint red star not much bigger than Jupiter really stretches the concept of “Earth-like” a bit too far.

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