Searching for Planets that could support life - Is there life out there?

Are planets with conditions that are "just right" for life as we know it rare in the galaxy? A new study suggests Earth-like planets may be a dime ... (2020)

The Atlantic, 2017: "Astronomers have found a temperate world orbiting a star just 11 light-years away. Discovering an exoplanet isn’t what it ... (2017)

ESO, European Southern Observatory, 2017: ESO’s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet around Ross 128. A temperate Earth-sized planet h... (2017)

Artist’s conception of a hot Eyeball planet. The permanent day side is sun-baked and dry. The permanent night side is covered with… (2018)

A super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say. (2019)

“We will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited,” astronomers predict. (2019)

What would human civilization look like on a tidally locked world? “... Imagine going to live on a planet where the sun never moves in the sky. ... (2019)