Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets

Mar 19, 2026 - 16:45
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Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets
An artist’s impression of a planetary system around a slightly hotter star than our Sun. Image credit: Gillis Lowry.

Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45 rocky exoplanets in the empirical habitable zone and 24 worlds in the narrower 3D habitable zone, offering scientists a focused guide in the search for extraterrestrial life.

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