Astronomers are looking forSuper-Earth in all the billions of Stars to discover a new planet that is habitable.
Astronomers are currently looking for planets that orbit beyond the solar system. They're often referred to as Exoplanets.
Few month back in 2022, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few extremely interesting planets orbiting those zones that are habitable for their parents stars.
One planet is 30% larger than Earth and orbits around its star in 3 days and other one is 70% larger than the Earth and might host a deep ocean.
Two exoplanets are super-Earths with greater mass than Earth but smaller than ice packed giants like 2 planets Uranus and Neptune.
Studies have shown that the best chance for astronomers are likely to discover the existence of life elsewhere on earth is to be on a super-Earth which are discovered recently.
Astronomers are currently looking for planets that orbit beyond the solar system. They're often referred to as Exoplanets.
Based on the latest research around 1/3 of the exoplanets that are super-Earths being the most prevalent kind of exoplanet found in Milky Way. The closest one is about 6 light years away from Earth.
Another reason why super-Earths are the ideal targets for the search for life because they're more easy to study and detect because of the small size than Earth.
Two methods are used to find exoplanets. The first is to use the gravitational effects of a planet other method is the light dimming of a star's light when the planet moves directly in front of it.
The most effective way to discover evidence of life in the exoplanet are more precise using the next generation of massive grounded Giant Magellan Telescope.
These Giant Telescope are not ready to start working till now, they are under development stage. May be they can start working by the end of decade.