Gaia-Informed Focus Narrows Exoplanet List to 45 Rocky Habitability Candidates

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Researchers led by Lisa Kaltenegger used Gaia data to compile 45 rocky exoplanets with plausible habitability (24 under stricter criteria) out of over 6,000 confirmed worlds, prioritizing those near Earth and in the habitable zone to guide telescope observations and study atmospheres for biosignatures with transit and direct imaging, paving the way for JWST, the Roman Space Telescope, and large ground-based observatories, while noting that this does not confirm life.