NASA Discovers Habitable Super-Earth Just 137 Light-Years Away

NASA has announced the discovery of a new "super-Earth," TOI-715 b, which is located 137 light-years away and orbits within a "habitable zone" around a small, reddish star. This exoplanet, about one and a half times the width of Earth, could potentially have the right conditions for liquid water to form on its surface, essential for sustaining life. The discovery, made by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), adds to the growing list of habitable-zone exoplanets that could be studied further by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to explore the composition of exoplanet atmospheres and potentially detect signs of life.