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# Do We Live in the Rarest Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/episode/do-we-live-in-the-rarest-solar-system-in-the-universe-were-about-to-find-out-mbbave/
- Published: 2025-12-31T17:01:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-31T17:30:09.000Z
- Description: We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: PBS Space Time, Season 11, Episode 17, #ZZZ_Episode_73c9fe19-dd97-4c41-b6f6-aaafe75a8189, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_ae70f836-13b6-4c9d-b61f-99f7b8bc29eb, #v1.16

There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other places in the universe that might harbor life. We only know of one such planet so far: Earth. And so we get particularly excited when we find Earth-mass planets at the right distance from their star to sustain liquid water—also critical for life as we know it.