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As Earth crosses the Sun's face, it dims the Sun's light by only 0.008%. ESA's PLATO exoplanet telescope, targeting a 2027 launch, will watch over 200,000 stars for years hoping to catch that same fleeting shadow. SORABUMI explains why hunting for a second Earth is such a patient game.
The 'habitable zone' gets thrown around a lot in exoplanet news. But it's never just about distance. Atmosphere, magnetic fields, rotation, and hidden subsurface oceans beyond the zone entirely — here's what conditions for life actually look like, explained with diagrams.
With more than 6,000 confirmed exoplanets, have we found a second Earth? We break down what the habitable zone actually means, how similarity is measured, and how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to change the search.