The headline is flat wrong. It would be closer to the truth to say, "Astronomers May Have Found a Planet Hospitable to Life." But being hospitable (and even that is still far from clear) is a long way from actual evidence of life, of which there is none. There are many ways to define the "habitable zone," and the odds are high that this …
The headline is flat wrong. It would be closer to the truth to say, "Astronomers May Have Found a Planet Hospitable to Life." But being hospitable (and even that is still far from clear) is a long way from actual evidence of life, of which there is none. There are many ways to define the "habitable zone," and the odds are high that this planet, while it may fit some definitions, fails others and will prove to be in the end uninhabitable by life as we know it.
The headline is flat wrong. It would be closer to the truth to say, "Astronomers May Have Found a Planet Hospitable to Life." But being hospitable (and even that is still far from clear) is a long way from actual evidence of life, of which there is none. There are many ways to define the "habitable zone," and the odds are high that this planet, while it may fit some definitions, fails others and will prove to be in the end uninhabitable by life as we know it.