Nasa discovers Earth-like planet that could support life with eternal summer – and it’s one of the ‘nearest’ ever found

FINDING a planet that can host life like Earth does is like trying to find a grain of sand in an infinitely expanding haystack.

And yet, despite the odds, astronomers may have just found a new, habitable world.

PAThe James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built[/caption] NASA/JPL-CALTECH/R. HURT (CALTECH-IPAC)Gliese 12 b orbits its version of the sun – a cool, red dwarf – every 12.8 days[/caption]

Roughly 40 light-years away, astronomers have...