27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
...in the Solar System – Mercury – could once have hosted a habitable underground layer filled with life-loving compounds. But according to new... whether our Solar System's habitable zone could now be expanded to include this small, tortured rocky world.
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting our closest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, within the star’s circumsolar habitable zone (HZ). Dubbed Proxima b, the exoplanet is not only the closest exoplanet to Earth – its host star is located over...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... than Mercury is to our Sun, however as Proxima Centauri is cooler than the Sun, Proxima b is within the star’s ‘habitable zone’ meaning that if water were present on its surface, it could be found in a liquid state. Nonetheless, despite having...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
...terrestrial planets could be orbiting within the host star's liquid water habitable zone. Water is key to life as we know it and the ...,” the authors state. It should be noted that habitability does not mean these planets definitely have life, merely...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... closest exoplanet to the Sun and also the closest potentially habitable exoplanet. Types of Life In the next few decades, ... shows the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting in the habitable zone of its host red dwarf star. It is the closest...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
...lurking nearby. However detecting a planet around a star’s ‘habitable zone’ is incredibly difficult, especially a rocky world such as ...VLT to greatly enhance its ability to find potentially habitable planets around the closest stellar system to Earth....
