Earth-like

An Earth-like planet, which is believed to have conditions which would support life as we know it, has been discovered 500 light years from earth.

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There are Earth-like worlds bigger than Earth. They are called Super-Earths in exoplanet studies.

Television and radio signals from Earth have only been traveling for about 80 years, the researchers said, adding that those transmissions have only reached about 8,531 stars and 3,555 potential Earth-like planets.

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, after analyzing data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, calculated that six percent of the galaxy's 75 billion red dwarf stars have potentially habitable, Earth-sized planets. Red dwarfs — which are smaller, cooler and much dimmer than our own Sun — are the most common stars in the galaxy, so the closest Earth-like planet could be just 13 light years away, the astronomers conclude in their new study.

Planets that could support life are often referred to as 'habitable' or 'Earth-like.'