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    Super-Earth discovered in habitable zone of sun-like star via TTV technique, paving way for 'Earth 2.0' searches
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    Super-Earth discovered in habitable zone of sun-like star via TTV technique, paving way for ‘Earth 2.0’ searches

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    3. -Average_Joe- on

      >Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth 

      Ignoring the fact that this planet is not reachable with current technology, does ten times the mass mean this planet has ten times stronger gravity?

    4. jethroguardian on

      At ten Earth masses and average flux of 1.4, this is a hot mini Neptune – definitely not a super-Earth and not in the habitable zone.

      Great demonstration of TTV technique though (but also not the first).

    5. MDICASE on

      I agree with most of what you are saying here but we can do muiltiple things at one time, I know I can. Your 2nd point isn’t exactly true I was just using our star expansion as an example but the sun can at anytime throw a deadly amount of energy in the form of a solar flare that would kill everything before we saw the sun start expanding greatly so again we don’t really know how long we have so you can say we don’t really need to worry because we have time but we don’t really know that to be true at all. You are also correct with the extinction events but that doesn’t mean our species will survive just that something will.