Astronomers Discuss New Alien-Planet Discoveries: "Sixty Earth-Like Planets in Habitable Zones within 32 Light-Years --Perhaps Many More"

"How common are planets orbiting low-mass stars? Very common indeed," explained Courtney Dressing, an astronomer at UC Berkeley to scientists gathered at Stanford University to discuss discovering life outside the Solar System. "For a typical M-Dwarf, there tends to be...