Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They’re Out There.
The gist
The New York Times reports super-Earths orbiting K-dwarf stars may be more habitable than Earth.
The catch: all of them sit outside our solar system.
How it unfolded
- Oct 11, 2026The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that for the first time a potentially habitable rocky planet, LHS 1140 b, shows signs of an atmosphere; astronomers using a spectrograph on a telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert found helium around it.
- Oct 12, 2026ScienceAlert reports new research suggesting Earth-sized planets can survive for a very long time in binary star systems, focused on 70 Ophiuchi, about 16 light-years away.
- Oct 13, 2026The New York Times reports there are worlds more habitable than Earth, called super-Earths, orbiting K-dwarf stars.