Astronomers are searching for the super planet

Again and again, astronomers proudly present exoplanets that would be suitable for life as we know it – i.e. made of solid rock and illuminated by their stars in such a way that water exists on their surface in a liquid state. But is our home planet really ideal for the development of life? After all, when the sun was still young and shone with a third less power, it was still quite cold here until CO2 finally created a greenhouse effect.

A study under the direction of the scientist Dirk Schulze...