NASA/Dana Berry "Here on Earth we are protected from asteroids by Jupiter," Danny Price, an astronomer at Curtin University in Australia ... be knocked out of the habitable zone by the ...

A Reddit post claiming that "Earth's distant twin", Kepler-442b, is actually more habitable than Earth hit the site's front page this week with more than 42,000 upvotes. "Kepler-442b, a rocky ...

The "lower luminosities of red dwarf stars also make it easier to determine if the planets that orbit them are habitable and have ... of Southern Queensland in Australia, said in a statement.

We know some white dwarfs have planets, and despite lacking nuclear fusion, white dwarfs do emit enough light and heat to have a habitable zone.But the question remains as to whether a planet ...