China, joint discovery may offer clue on life beyond earth

A Chinese-German research team has discovered a super-Earth exoplanet named Kepler-725c, which is about 10 times the mass of Earth. teleSUR

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00:00And in other news, a joint discovery by Chinese and German scientists may offer a significant clue

00:05on the question of whether life exists beyond Earth.

00:09Based on the Transmit Timing Variation TTV technique, for the first time,

00:14the super-Earth Kepler-725C, with 10 times the mass of the Earth,

00:20has been detected within the habitable zone of the Sun-like star's Kepler-725,

00:26which is a promising candidate for potential habitability.

00:30The breakthrough was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Tuesday,

00:34and the discovery, based on the TTV technique, offers a new approach to detecting exo-Earths,

00:40making the technique a powerful tool for discovering invisible planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars.