Gaia and Exoplanet Archive–Based Catalogue of Almost 50 Habitable Rocky Exoplanets to Guide Future Observations

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Researchers used Gaia data and the NASA Exoplanet Archive to identify about 50 rocky exoplanets that could be habitable and 24 more in a tighter 3D habitable zone, naming targets such as Proxima Centauri b, TRAPPIST-1 d–g, LHS 1140 b and Kepler-186f, and they study how eccentric orbits and atmospheric loss affect long‑term habitability while outlining how upcoming telescopes like JWST, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory and LIFE can observe them, with Gillis Lowry, Abigail Bohl and Lucas Lawrence stressing that finding where to look is the first crucial step and Lisa Kaltenegger noting that life could be more versatile than imagined.