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Astrobiology, Astronomy, Exoplanets, Extrasolar Planets, James Webb Space Telescope, Kepler Mission, Planet News

More livable than Earth? New index sizes up the habitability of alien exoplanets

5 Oct , 2015 by Alan Boyle

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for judging how suitable alien planets might be for life, and the top prospects on their list are an Earthlike world called Kepler-442b and a yet-to-be confirmed planet known as KOI 3456.02. Those worlds both score higher than our own planet on the index: 0.955 […]

Habitability, Planetary Habitability Index, Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL)

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