One of NASA’s space telescopes, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which was created specifically to search for exoplanets, discovered the second planet in the TOI 700 star system, which is very similar to Earth in many parameters. For example, scientists state that the found planet has the same dimensions and that the readings of the equipment indicate that there could potentially be water and, more importantly, full-fledged life on its surface. And in fact, it’s a truly rare phenomenon, because most human-studied star systems have no potentially Earth-like planets, and TOI 700 has two at once.

Initially, NASA experts discovered a planet very similar to Earth in the TOI 700 star system – we are talking about TOI 700 d. This exoplanet is in the star’s habitable zone (where water, including liquid form, can exist). Accordingly, experts began to study this planet, but soon it turned out that next to TOI 700 d there is another exoplanet – TOI 700 e. The neighboring planet has approximately the same physical properties, is at the same distance from the star, and is also theoretically suitable for life. Now scientists from NASA consider this star system the most interesting thing to study, because the chances of finding life here are twice as high as usual.

That’s considering the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has already detected a significant number of exoplanets in space. NASA notes that scientists have been operating this spacecraft since 2018 – during which time the satellite identified more than six thousand potential candidates for the title of “Earth 2.0,” in which, according to scientists, 285 planets are very similar to Earth. respects. The only problem is that any of these planets are so far from Earth that even in theory it is impossible to talk about their colonization.

For example, the exoplanets TOI 700 d and TOI 700 e, of great interest to NASA, are located 100 light-years from Earth. Of course, this is noticeably closer than some planets considered more favorable for human habitation, but humanity cannot overcome such a distance at the current technological level. So scientists will need to continue to study Earth 2.0 with a telescope and collect data from James Webb, but not anymore.