It is believed that there are more such super-Earths outside our solar system. It is common to have such planets orbiting their stars.

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Habitable zones are defined as regions around stars that are temperate enough to allow liquid water to exist at the surfaces of terrestrial planets within the area. Any closer to a star than its ...

The new findings provide a long-missing piece in the Martian puzzle, offering a snapshot of a time when the planet was not just habitable, but perhaps truly hospitable. Curiosity’s robotic arm drilled ...

or a potentially habitable planet entirely covered in liquid water with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. “Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life. An illustration shows what ...

Yet a new climate‑modeling study hints that some of these faint objects – white dwarfs – could keep nearby planets toasty enough for liquid water to exist. That possibility expands the hunting ground ...