This “conservative” zone is much narrower than the “optimistic” habitable zone, where a planet could have liquid water with a lower degree of certainty. TOI-715b is also quite close to ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

This eccentric orbital path traverses the star’s habitable zone, the region in which liquid water might persist and allow life to arise, although the planet’s cycles of hot and cold could at ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal ...

TOI 700 e, which may also be tidally locked, takes 28 days to orbit its star, placing planet e between planets c and d in the so-called optimistic habitable zone. Scientists define the optimistic ...