An Earth-like planet would possibly orbit our closest single sun-like star

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

A star like our solar simply 12 mild years away would possibly host a rocky world in its liveable zone the place situations permit for liquid water.

Researchers Jeremy Dietrich and Dániel Apai on the College of Arizona devised an algorithm referred to as DYNAMITE to foretell the existence of planets round stars based mostly on information from planets already identified to be orbiting.

They utilized this algorithm to a star referred to as Tau Ceti, which is the closest single sun-like star to our …