The following list includes potentially habitable exoplanets. It is mostly based on estimates of habitability by the Habitable Worlds Catalog (HWC), and data from theNASA Exoplanet Archive . The HWC is maintained by thePlanetary Habitability Laboratory at theUniversity of Puerto Rico at Arecibo .[ 1]
Surfaceplanetary habitability is thought to require an orbit at the right distance from the host star for liquid surface water to be present, in addition to variousgeophysical andgeodynamical aspects,atmospheric density, radiation type and intensity, and the host star'splasma environment.[ 2]
Main list This is a list of confirmedexoplanets within thecircumstellar habitable zone that are either under 10 Earth masses or smaller than 2.5 Earth radii and thus have a chance of beingrocky .[ 1] [ 3] Note that inclusion on this list does not guarantee habitability, and in particular the larger planets are less likely to have a rocky composition and more likely to bemini-Neptunes .[ 4] Earth is included for both comparison and reference, while Venus and Mars are included for reference only.
Note that mass and radius values prefixed with "~" have not been measured, but are predicted from a mass–radius relationship.
Current candidates This is a list of notable exoplanets within thecircumstellar habitable zone that are either under 10 Earth masses or smaller than 2.5 Earth radii and havenot yet been confirmed. Earth is included for both comparison and reference, while Venus and Mars are included for reference only.
Previous candidates Some habitable exoplanets detected byradial velocity were considered as stellar artifacts by some studies. These includeGliese 581 d andg ,[ 82] [ 83] [ 84] Gliese 667 Ce and f,[ 18] [ 85] Gliese 682 b and c,[ 65] Kapteyn b ,[ 86] [ 87] Gliese 229 Ac ,[ 88] HD 85512 b andGliese 832 c .[ 89]
Several other planets, such asGliese 180 b , also appear to be examples of planets once considered potentially habitable but later found to be interior to the habitable zone.[ 1] Similarly,Tau Ceti e [ a] , HD 85512 b andKepler-69c were thought to be likely habitable,[ 91] but with improved models of the circumstellar habitable zone, PHL does not consider it potentially habitable.[ 1] [failed verification ] Kepler-438b was also initially considered potentially habitable; however, it was later found to be a subject of powerfulflares that can strip a planet of its atmosphere, so it is now considered non-habitable.[ 1]
K2-3d andK2-18b were originally considered potentially habitable, and the latter remains listed in the HWC,[ 1] but recent studies have shown them to be gaseoussub-Neptune rather than being theHycean planet and thus unlikely to be habitable.[ 92] [ 93] [ 94] [ 95] [ 96] [ 97]
Kepler-1638b was thought to be a possibly habitable planet with a radius smaller than 2 R 🜨 after the validation. However based on the later measurement of host star parallax byGaia , the radius of the planet was revised upward to 3.226+0.201 −0.315 R 🜨 , meaning it is more likely anice giant like Neptune with poor prospect for habitability.[ 98] [ 99]
KOI-1686.01 was also considered a potentially habitable exoplanet after its detection in 2011, until proven a false positive byNASA in 2015.[ 100] Several other KOIs, likeKepler-577b andKepler-1649b , were considered potentially habitable prior to confirmation, but with new data are no longer considered habitable.
TRAPPIST-1 d was considered to be potentially habitable untilJWST/NIRSpec data found little evidence for an atmosphere with Earth-like surface pressure, highly likely ruling out habitability.[ 101]
See also
Notes ^ The existence of Tau Ceti e is dubious, see[ 90]
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