About 137 light-years away, the super-Earth TOI-715 b orbits a red dwarf sun. The exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and was first found in 2023. The same star system may also hold a smaller, nearly Earth-sized planet. If confirmed, that exoplanet — currently named TIC 271971130.02 — will be the smallest habitable-zone planetContinue reading “Recently discovered super-Earth might be habitable — and it could have a sibling”
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