Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute Identifies 45 Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets as Prime Life-Host Candidates (24 Conservative) for JWST and the Roman Space Telescope

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Coauthors Abigail Bohl and Gillis Lowry explain that Cornell researchers identified 45 rocky exoplanets in habitable zones, with 24 under a stricter solar-based definition, including Proxima Centauri b and TRAPPIST-1 d–g, as targets to guide JWST and Roman Space Telescope observations, while noting that interstellar travel would take tens of thousands of years and that eccentric orbits could affect habitability.

The 45 planets most likely to host alien life, according to astronomers
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The 45 planets most likely to host alien life, according to astronomers

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