Of Exoplanets And Habitability: Exploring the Possibility Of ‘Superhabitable Worlds’

Artist’s impression of an exoplanet with a mass approximately 3.6 times that of Earth, discovered orbiting just inside of the habitable zone of the Sun-like star HD 85512. Are ‘Super-Earths’ such as this, the most promising candidates for harboring extraterrestrial life? Image Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

“For there is a single general space, a single [...]