Plan 9 From Outer Space

Earthlike planets are right around the corner

Arts, Culture & Media

A few weeks ago, a couple of astronomers madeheadlineswhen they announced that they’d found a planet orbiting a distant star. It was hardly the first: since 1995, about 500 planets have been discovered in orbit around stars beyond the Sun. What made this one extraordinary was, first of all, that it wasn’t all that much […]