Scientists’ hopes of finding alien life have been renewed after a newly discovered super-Earth was spotted revolving around a nearby red dwarf. “,” Jason Dittmann, lead author on the study on the discovery, said in a release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). “We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science — searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.” According to the study, and may have likely maintained its atmosphere despite...