The most promising nearby world for life doesn't have a name you'd recognize—just a catalog designation and a star so dim it barely registers in our sky.
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 n… [+11491 chars]
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 n… [+11491 chars]