#habitability

#habitability

"The worst place to live on Earth is actually the safest place to live on another planet," he adds.

The hunt for life beyond Earth has taken an unexpected twist as President Barack Obama claims that aliens are real, but that he doesn't know where they are. The former president said in an interview that extraterrestrials were 'not being kept' in Area 51, a US Air Force base that has long featured in alien theories. Obama told interviewer Brian Tyler Cohen: 'There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.'

The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it involves getting a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a habitable zone where liquid water exists.

"Finding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting. It highlights the remarkable diversity of exoplanetary systems and strengthens the case for studying potentially habitable worlds around low-mass stars."