An Earth-like planet may orbit our closest single sun-like star

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

CHRIS BUTLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

A star like our solar simply 12 gentle years away may host a rocky world in its liveable zone the place circumstances enable for liquid water.

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

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