New 'life in space' hope after billions of 'habitable planets' found in Milky Way Photo: NASA
The planet lies in what they describe as a 'habitable zone', neither too near its sun to dry out or too far away which freezes it.
And the discovery could help answer the question of whether we are alone in the universe, which has been plaguing astronomers and alien fanatics for years.Scientists found the planet, Gliese 667Cc, orbiting around a red dwarf star, 22 light years away from the earth.