The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star; it is GJ 887 d, confirmed in 2026 around a quiet red dwarf 10.7 light-years away – making GJ 887 d the second-closest known habitable-zone planet after Proxima Centauri b

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There is something almost comic about the name GJ 887 d. It sounds like a storage code, not a place. The star it circles is better known to catalogues than to the public, and the planet itself has never been photographed. Yet this anonymous-looking system, 10.7 light-years away, now contains the second-closest confirmed planet in [...] The post The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star; it is GJ 887 d, confirmed in 2026 around a quiet red dwarf 10.7 light-years away – making GJ 887 d the second-closest known habitable-zone planet after Proxima Centauri b appeared first on Space Daily .