The habitable zone is also known as the "Goldilocks zone" because planets orbiting at that "just right" distance from a star are not too hot or too cold to host liquid water.

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Their paper, "The time evolution of the ultraviolet habitable zone," was recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.. As Spinelli told Universe Today via ...

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope discovered an exoplanet in the habitable zone of a nearby star. It’s one of four known planets about 100 light-years away.

When it comes to exploring habitable exoplanets, astronomers are limited in what they can do. The James Webb Space Telescope relies on infrared astronomy to interrogate points of light.

If the ice is even cleaner, a potential habitable zone could extend as deep as 2.15 to 3.1 m (7.05 to 10.17 ft). Liquid water would still be necessary for this kind of life, ...

A planet has been discovered lurking in the habitable zone of not one, but two, stars. This far-off planet, situated around 310 light-years from Earth, has been found to exist within the two-star ...

The eccentric orbit of planet HD 20794 d sends this world swooping through a skewed swath of its star’s habitable zone. (Dumusque et al. 2025) Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) ...

The James Webb Space Telescope investigated a giant planet, K2-18b, that could be an ocean world, according to NASA. The exoplanet lies 120 light-years away from Earth.