We discovered a super-Earth with potential for life in our cosmic neighborhood! 🌍 This rocky planet is larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and it orbits in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, where conditions might allow liquid water to exist on the surface. That’s one key ingredient for life as we know it, but there’s a catch. Red dwarfs are known to unleash powerful solar flares that can strip away a planet’s atmosphere, making habitability uncertain. #Planet #RedDwarf #Universe #

In the next 5-10 years, it’s ‘inevitable’ the planet will breach 1.5°C of global warming on a more permanent basis, after it touched the boundary for the first time in 2024, says Johan Rockström, Director of PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The situation is urgent - but far from hopeless. With the world’s leaders set to assemble at the #COP30 climate conference from 10-21 November, Rockström names 3 priorities to help minimize the overshoot and get the planet back to 1.5°C by t