After mankind destroys planet Earth with plastic and fossil fuel pollution, the overuse of natural resources, and cause the extinction of multiple plants and animal species, will there be another planet in some faraway galaxy for us to turn to?

What will the future of humanity be after Earth becomes uninhabitable?© (photo credit: RAWPIXEL)

If Earth becomes overcrowded, there must be an exo-planet somewhere with more room. However, choosing a suitable place for human relocation and expansion will require a lot of careful planning.

The innovative method evaluates the habitability of distant planets using a computerized system that classifies such potential homelands and identifies those that are suitable for future human settlements. Their joint research study has just been published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal under the title “Greater climate sensitivity and variability on TRAPPIST-1e than Earth.”

TRAPPIST-1e is a planet located some 40 light years from the Earth that is scheduled to be documented by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) next year. It is so called because it was found by a team of astronomers using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2015.

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