habitable zone
Here’s Our First View of TRAPPIST-1, the Alien Solar System With Earth-Sized Planets
Super pixellated, but still amazing.
Finding Habitable Planets Is Even Harder Than We Thought
New research suggests that highly random formative events likely play a large role in determining a planet’s habitability.
The Kepler Mission Has Found Another 1,284 Planets—The Biggest Haul Yet
Some of these planets could host life.
Nearly 2,000 Planets That Could Hold Water, Visualized
Not too hot, not too cold, and not very close to home at all.
An Old Astronomical Rule Says There Should Be Way More Habitable Planets
And researchers are applying the theory to findings from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler satellite with interesting results.
Alien Life May Exist Beyond the Habitable Zone
The Goldilocks zone isn’t the be and end all of what’s habitable.
Life on Earth Probably Has About 1.75 Billion Years Left
In case you need to do any long-term planning.
If We Want to Find Aliens, We Need To Look at Weirder Planets
Planets and moons hosting life might not be Earth-like at all, argues MIT researcher.
A Way Out of the "So What?" Paradox of Hunting Alien Earths
A new paper points at white dwarf stars as our best hope at finding planets with oxygen.
Kepler Confirms a Habitable Zone Planet (But Don't Pack Your Bags)
The "habitable zone" in astronomy-speak is the area around a star where liquid water could exist. It's not, like, some cozy astronaut campground off in the cosmos. We know now for sure that about 600 light years away the planet known as Kepler-22b...