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Artist’s impression of LHS 1140b transiting its host, a small, faint red star. Depicted in blue is the atmosphere the planet may have retained.
Credit: M. Weiss/CfA
The discovery of LHS 1140b
2017-04-28
There is a new top candidate for the best place to search for life outside our Solar System. Announced in Nature on April 20th 2017, LHS 1140b is a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby small star. This is the story of that discovery and the role PEST played.Read More →