Closest Planet To Earth That Could Support Life at Life

Closest Planet To Earth That Could Support Life. Though you'd think that'd make the planet,. It's at least five times as massive, for starters, and is so close to its sun that a year is only 16 days.

Scientists have deemed dozens of exoplanets potentially habitable, but these are the candidates closest to us. In more promising news, a team of nasa scientists has just published a study claiming that the closest known exoplanet, proxima centauri b, just might possibly be able to support life. The planet, more than four times the mass of the earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called wolf 1061.

'Superearth' is nearest ever found which could

Here are illustrations of the nine most likely planets to support life, based on data compiled by the planetary habitability laboratory. Here are illustrations of the nine most likely planets to support life, based on data compiled by the planetary habitability laboratory. This is the closest planet yet that could support life beyond our solar system. Scientists have deemed dozens of exoplanets potentially habitable, but these are the candidates closest to us.