Super Earth in ‘Goldilocks zone’ discovered with new alien-hunting tool – now it will search for more habitable planets

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life – is the ultimate goal for planetary science.

AlamyLocated in the Lyra constellation, the Super Earth planet completes an orbit of its nearby star every 207.5 days[/caption] An artist’s impression of Kepler-725b, a gas giant planet in the same system

And finding planets that lie in the Goldilocks zone of their sun-like stars ...