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"There’s room for a richer definition": Astronomers debate rethinking what makes a planet habitable
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn artist's impression of exoplanet WASP-69b orbiting its host star Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck...
Alien Life May Exist in the Zone Between Night and Day, Study Says
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoLife May Exist in Alien 'Terminator Zones'_548901005677 - Getty Images The search for habitable...
Planet in distant galaxy could support life, NASA says
CBS News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNASA'S James Webb Space Telescope observed a planet outside of our solar system that might be able...
NASA exoplanet telescope discovers 'super-Earth' in its star's Goldilocks zone
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has spotted a 'super-Earth' in the habitable zone of its...
There may be hundreds of millions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, new study suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA rocky planet orbits a small, red star known as a red dwarf -- the most common type of star in the...
Could a nearby 'super Earth' have conditions to support life? Astronomers hope to find out
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe discovery of a nearby "super Earth" has astronomers raring to learn more about the large planet...
No star, no problem: Rogue planets could incubate life for billions of years
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScientists once assumed that the best place to look for extraterrestrial life would be planets...
Last Gasp: A Dying NASA Telescope Spotted Three Exoplanets in Its Final Days
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFive years since the Kepler Space Telescope was retired, a team of astronomers believe they’ve found...
Sorry, Spock, but planet Vulcan's real-life doppelgänger doesn't exist
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoan illustration of an alien planet orbiting a bright star This is going to disappoint Trekkies...
Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World Discovered Just 40 Light-Years Away
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA world that bears more than a passing similarity to Earth has just been discovered orbiting a star...