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Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos (osu.edu)
8 points by geox 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Super-earths, not Earths.


For now. Because of limits of our current telescope technologies. Extrapolating from the development of that, one could at least assume with high confidence that will change rather soon. Which is more than pure speculation.


Be that as it may, as a report of the current evidence, the title of this thread is incorrect.




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