Faraway planet could support life

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20101013/Note1.asp
By Stephen Ornes
Date written:  October 13 , 2010
Now for a very long time people has been searching for other planets with life on then Earth. Did we finally find one? The scientists say so. The planet is the sixth found orbiting a star called Giles 581. This star with its other stars could be called a mini version of our solar system. The planet is 20 light years away from Earth. One light-year is the distance light can travel in one year roughly 6 trillion miles. You’d have to go around the Earth 240 million times to travel a light year or go the Moon and back about 12.5 million times. The scientists expect the planet to have water because where ever water is the living things are! The scientists also know that the humans will not be visiting the planet so soon. It would take a bit more then 200 years for a human spaceship to travel there! The scientists are still studding the planet with the help of the new telescopes that are made to look for planets which is just what they need! I think that we humans will think of a way to get there we just need some time to develop out technology. Also with the new telescopes we have we can learn more about the planet and give it a better name!