SEND IN THE MISSIONARIES! The aliens need to be brought the word of "JESUS CHRIST(tm)". He did die for them on the cross in Jerusalem too.. after all!

Lol the fact that they dont evan know if its solid ,

IT WITHIN HABITAL ZONE WOOOW OOO so tupid how midea will jump on stuff like this and Stretch it so far .

just out of intrest , isent mars within the habital zone of our solor system , there are so manny verables outside of the distance from the sun that have to fall in place before u evan ar elikely to have water on a planet let allone basic life.

not saying the methods used to be able to pick up these relitavly small objects and evalute data about them is not remarcable and exciting , i just dont think it needs to be streched so far all you end up doing is bilding iunreolistic exsperctatoins in people.

it's not "the media", it's NASA News, and this is exciting. no one's going to take settlers there until we find out more about it though. it gives scientists a specific target for further study instead of just launching crap out there willy nilly hoping to find something. now that we've found something along the lines of what we were looking for, it's time to look closer. 20 light years is pretty far tho. regardless, it's an important astronomical discovery.

Mars is not within our solar systems habitable zone, its just outside of it. The exciting thing about this discovery is that it is relatively close to our solar system, only 20 light years away. That means 2 habitable zone planets within a sphere of space with a radius of only 10 light years. If that density is at all representative of the whole galaxy it would indicate as many as 50 - 100 billion habitable zone planets in our galaxy, greatly increasing the chances of planets with liquid water and consequently some form of life.