Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

They're oddballs, and determining if they are in habitable zones requires a different approach than with rocky planets. In our solar system, some of the gas giant moons have frozen shells with ...

It is located in the star’s habitable zone, the region around a star where temperatures allow a planet to host liquid water on its surface. This makes TOI 4633 A the brightest star yet known to ...

Scientists have named this solar system "Trappist-1." A couple of those planets within the "Trappist-1" solar system sit within the habitable zone. Between 2017 and 2021, ...

Astronomers have detected a new super-Earth a mere 137 light-years away, and it's smack in the middle of the star's habitable zone. That's quite close in the grand scheme, and we have NASA's ...

The Sun's expansion into a red giant will engulf the inner planets, drastically increasing temperatures in the outer solar system. The habitable zone will expand to 10-50 AU, potentially making ...

Planning is well underway for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a telescope project that will hunt for telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system.

The outer planet is the super-Earth HD 20794 d, and the green region in space is this solar system's habitable zone. An illustration of a habitable zone in a solar system. Credit: NASA.

All solar systems, including our own, are thought to have started out like this one, according to the scientists. But it’s estimated only 1-in-100 systems have retained that synchrony, and ours ...