How hot does a planet have to get to bleed all its life-giving water to space? We don't know for sure, so this planet could help us solve that mystery,' she added. 'It is exactly where a planet should still be a hot Earth but could have started on its path to water-loss and Venus-like conditions already.
Kaltenegger is part of a team of researchers trying to figure out the limits of the habitable zone around a star. ' is fascinating because it is just at the edge of the habitable zone, at the inner edge, so closer to the Sun than the Earth, but not as close as Venus,' Lisa Kaltenegger, assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told The Register.
