Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

That makes it a close cosmic neighbor of Earth. Wolf 1069 b—which is in the so-called “habitable zone” of its star system, becomes the sixth-closest possible Earth-like planet found so far ...

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After all, organisms ranging from bacteria to blue whales ... from their host star, that temperature range corresponds to a certain orbital distance known as the habitable zone.