{"id":3927745,"date":"2026-08-31T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/looking-for-earth-2-0-in-binary-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:02:22","slug":"looking-for-earth-2-0-in-binary-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/looking-for-earth-2-0-in-binary-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Earth 2.0 in binary systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them\u2014they have yet to find an Earth-mass, rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. That&#8217;s partially due to cosmic geography\u2014around half of all sun-like stars near us aren&#8217;t alone. They have one or more companion stars that complicate their orbital dynamics, as well as those of any planets they might host.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-earth-binary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them\u2014they have yet to find an Earth-mass, rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. That&#8217;s partially due to cosmic geography\u2014around half of all sun-like stars near us aren&#8217;t alone. They have one or [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}