Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined.
"The nearest Earth-like planet is simply a stroll across the park away," she said at a news conference in Cambridge, Mass.
If our Milky Way galaxy were shrunk to the size of the United States, the distance between Earth and its closest Earth-like neighbor would be the span of New York's Central Park, said Harvard University graduate student Courtney Dressing, the study's lead author.
