Mar 282012
At first…
New ‘life in space’ hope after billions of ‘habitable planets’ found in Milky Way
But then…
A total of nine super-Earths – planets with masses between one and 10 times that of Earth – were found. Two were located within the habitable zones of the stars Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C.
First off, a “super Earth” is not necessarily a “habitable planet.” In fact… almost certainly *not.* Second, that’s kind of a small sample size…
Still, it’s looking more and more like this might be a crowded galaxy.