Scientists Explores Wolf 1061c To Be Next Habitable Planet After Earth

Scientists Explores Wolf 1061c To Be Next Habitable Planet After Earth

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet named Wolf 1061 located around 14 light years away from Earth that could be the habitable planet in the future after Earth.  In an effort to find out if life thrives in

any planet other than our Earth, the scientists carried out a research with focus on searching “habitable zones” regions where water could exist in a liquid state on the surface of the planet in the presence of sufficient atmospheric pressure. They discovered that one of the three planets in the Wolf 1061 system named Wolf 1061c, a rocky planet is entirely within the habitable zone, the area where liquid water could exist on the surface of the celestial body. for being a habitable region, the planet can’t be too close or too far from its parent star. A planet that’s too close would be too hot like Earth’s twin Venus. If it’s too far, it may be too cold and any water would freeze like on Mars.

v. However, the researchers also noticed that like Earth experiences climatic changes such as an ice age because of slow variations in its orbit around the sun, Wolf 1061c’s orbit changes at a much faster rate, leading to a very chaotic climate.