A 45-Planet Habitable-Zone Shortlist Guides Future Observations, with Doolysaurus huhmini, Python Metabolism, and Ganymede’s Magnetospheric Insights

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Researchers have narrowed the search to 45 rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone that could have liquid water, including four around TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima Centauri b, with Abigail Bohl leading a refined catalog that ranks planets by age, orbit, radiation, and how easy they are to observe to help plan future telescope missions, while also noting a new Korean dinosaur Doolysaurus huhmini (Jongyun Jung and colleagues), dramatic post‑meal energy and organ changes in Burmese pythons (Shuke Xiao, Mengjie Wang, and Thomas G. Martin), and brighter auroras on Ganymede due to its mini‑magnetosphere (Xin Cao and colleagues), all tying into themes of habitability, biodiversity, extreme physiology, and planetary magnetism.