The search is on for a second 'Earth' that humans could colonise and now there's a new candidate - Wolf 1061c.
The rocky orb, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years away.
It is one of three detected by Australian astronomers that orbit a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061.
'It is fascinating to look out at the vastness of space and think a star so very close to us - a near neighbour - could host a habitable planet.
While a few other planets have been found that orbit stars closer to us than Wolf 1061, those planets are not considered to be remotely habitable
