An Earth-like planet could orbit our nearest Sun-like star

A star like our Sun, only 12 light years away, could host a rocky world in its habitable zone where conditions allow for liquid water.

University of Arizona researchers Jeremy Dietrich and Dániel Apai developed an algorithm called DYNAMITE to predict the existence of planets around stars based on data from planets that are already known to orbit.

They applied this algorithm to a star named Tau Ceti, which our …