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Recently discovered super-Earth TOI-715 b might be habitable

TOI-715 b is a potentially rocky planet that could host water on its surface. The same star system may also hold a smaller, sub-Earth world.

How many planets in our universe could support life? | HowStuffWorks

Considering the vast number of galaxies, researchers estimate about 50 sextillion potentially habitable planets in the universe, making Earth ...

One of Earth's Closest Alien Planets Appears to Be An "Ocean World"

Proxima b could potentially be an "ocean planet." · The case for Proxima b · Water = Life.

Potentially habitable 'exo-Venus' with Earth-like temperature ...

Getting an answer is vital because it would reveal if Gliese 12 b can maintain temperatures suitable for liquid water -- and possibly life -- to ...

Water Vapor Found on Alien Planet: Is There Life Out There? - Medium

In a major breakthrough for the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have announced the discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of an ...

Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world - BBC

Nasa's Hubble telescope had detected the presence of water vapour previously, which is why the planet, which has been named K2-18b, was one of ...

The best places to search for life in our Solar System

Europa's subsurface oceans are thought to contain twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined. Measurements of the moon's magnetic ...

Why do we automatically assume that water means life in other ...

What is true on this planet is the reverse: where there is life, there is water. That's because all living things require water (some organisms ...

What would signal life on another planet? - Knowable Magazine

Astronomers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bona fide alien biosignature. With the launch of the James Webb Space ...

Scientists have discovered a potential sign of life on Venus

Scientists have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth's ...

Webb Telescope Reveals “Best Habitable Zone Exoplanet Currently ...

The newly discovered exoplanet LHS 1140 b is believed to be a likely candidate planet for habitable conditions, including an atmosphere and the potential for a ...

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

Last September alone, it detected carbon dioxide on Jupiter's icy moon Europa that appears to come from its potentially life-friendly concealed ...

NASA finds 7 Earth-like planets that could host alien life - CNET

According to computer climate models, the system's innermost and hottest planets, Trappist-1b, c and d, likely have little or no liquid water on ...

Unfathomably deep oceans on alien water worlds? | Space - EarthSky

Even Pluto is now thought to have one! Perhaps other worlds in our solar system have water we haven't found yet. Scientists also think they're ...

Where in the Solar System Are We Most Likely to Find Life?

Previous research has shown that the moon is covered with water ice, and may contain a liquid ocean underneath its surface—raising the ...

Scientists Discover A New Planet That May Support Life - Time

Scientists have discovered a new planet that may be able to support human life, according to a new study. The study, published in Monthly ...

Astronomers detect 'waterworld with a boiling ocean' in deep space

Astronomers have observed a distant planet that could be entirely covered in a deep water ocean, in findings that advance the search for habitable conditions ...

Former NASA scientist hints at planets where alien life may exist

... alien life in a water world dominated by octopus-like creatures, a planet which has a dark side where the sun never rises and a lava hell ...

Did life start on the ocean floor — and what does that mean for alien ...

After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of water on Earth is most likely key, in some way, to the ...

Water Found in Atmosphere of Nearby Alien Planet - Yahoo

Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers. Advances in the technique ...