Planet Gliese 581g

It might be a place that only a lichen or pond scum could love, but astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a very distant planet capable of harboring water on its surface, thus potentially making it a home for plant or animal life.Nobody from Earth will be visiting anytime soon: The planet, which goes by the bumpy name of Gliese 581g, is or...

It might be a place that only a lichen or pond scum could love, but astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a very distant planet capable of harboring water on its surface, thus potentially making it a home for plant or animal life.Nobody from Earth will be visiting anytime soon: The planet, which goes by the bumpy name of Gliese 581g, is or...