Space Daily·2 min read·medium
The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star; it is GJ 887 d, confirmed in 2026 around a quiet red dwarf 10.7 light-years away - making GJ 887 d the second-clos
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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of GJ 887 d, a potentially habitable planet located 10.7 light-years from Earth. The planet orbits a quiet red dwarf star and is considered the second-closest candidate for habitability discovered to date.
There is something almost comic about the name GJ 887 d. It sounds like a storage code, not a place. The star it circles is better known to catalogues than to the public, and the planet itself has never been photographed. Yet this anonymous-looking s... [11417 chars]
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