NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected an exoplanet, K2-18 b, which is larger than Earth and located in a habitable ...

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The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.

Planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones could be habitable for a couple of billion years longer than ...

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Many of these exoplanets are small and rocky, like Earth, and in the habitable zones of their stars. The habitable zone is the range of distances between the surface of a planet and the star it ...