The planet

t-r-e-s-2b is a planet where night never

ends and it's not your regular Knight

with stars shining in the beautiful

Skies here it's pitch dark and scorching

High Tres 2B is a gas giant roughly one

and a half times more massive than

Jupiter and its surface absorbs light

better than charcoal it might also have

a faint dark red glow because of its

burning air which is as hot as fresh

lava lovely

in the star system of 55 cancri there

are five planets four of which are gas

giants similar to Jupiter and Saturn but

the fifth one or rather the first

because it's closest to the star is

different in a most horrible way

55 cancri e is so close to its Sun that

half the planet's surface is a literal

ocean of molten lava the other half is

an eternal Darkness because it never

sees the sun the planet is always turned

to its star on one side and between the

scorching and the dark there's the

Twilight Zone a thin strip of gloomy

nothingness

hd189377 B well I'm not going to say

that again is the only exoplanet in the

orbit of its star and at first glance it

looks quite pretty blue and white swirls

making up wondrous patterns on the

surface but these Pleasant colors

actually come from hard silicate

particles in the planet's atmosphere

which means it rains glass here but the

worst is that winds reached the speed of

5400 miles per hour or almost Mach 7.

well for comparison the fastest wind

speed on Earth was 254 miles per hour

over 20 times less thus the glass

falling from the sky travels

horizontally at Hypersonic speeds

shredding everything in its path

the next system whose name I won't even

try to pronounce

um this one has three exoplanets which

are all being slowly destroyed by their

own star it happens because that star is

not a regular it's a pulsar a rapidly

spinning core of an exploded star it

creates powerful electromagnetic pulses

in several directions while rotating at

several thousand times per second as a

result the planets orbiting this

deceased star are slowly being eaten

away and will eventually disappear

entirely

kepler-70 is a hot blue dwarf star that

exploded into a red giant some 18

million years ago at the time it was

orbited by at least two planets the

closer of which was a jupiter-like gas

giant its name was kepler-70b and it

still exists but the overgrown star

consumed it and transformed it into a

blazing hot Rocky world right now it's

one of the hottest planets ever

discovered its temperature is higher

than the surface of our sun it was lucky

to survive spending time inside the star

but it's evaporating now and will

probably be no more in the near future

wasp 12b is one of the weirdest and

saddest planets out there the enormous

gravity of its star combined with the

planets consisting mostly of gas result

in the star slowly devouring its protege

wasp 12b has already taken the form of

an egg stretched toward its merciless

sun and it's unable to do anything with

its condition in another 10 million

years the planet will inevitably succumb

to the voracious star's appetite

if you ever wondered what it's like to

walk on ice and hot coals at the same

time lesi 436b is a planet that would

give you a vivid example being extremely

close to its Sun the Neptune size

exoplanet boasts temperatures hotter

than a blazing oven and yet it's covered

in ice which burns incessantly this ice

is much denser due to the enormous

gravity of the planet staying solid even

under extreme conditions and not melting

away

no list of frightening worlds could do

without mentioning Venus the Earth's

evil twin the second planet from the sun

has an atmosphere so thick and full of

clouds that its surface is much hotter

than that of mercury volcanic eruptions

constantly thrash Venus its gravity is

almost a hundred times stronger than

ours and those clouds I mentioned are

not made of water but of sulfuric acid

which condenses and rains down on the

ground adding to The Inferno but even if

you were Brave or crazy enough to try to

pass through these clouds you probably

couldn't the winds up there are as

strong as some of the most powerful

hurricanes back on Earth

here we have a very long name for a very

very cold Planet although the host star

is not too far away it's a small and

rather cool Red Dwarf whose light in

heat barely even reached the planet

the temperatures out there fall as low

as minus 370 degrees which is only

marginally warmer than absolute zero the

exoplanet is thus dark gloomy and

covered in Eternal eyes that never thaws

still if it has a rocky core it might

generate some heat so there's a chance

that deep below the Frozen surface some

unknown alien things might lurk

dimidium located roughly 50 light years

away from our solar system is a planet

hostile to any living thing on many

accounts it's tidally locked to its sun

which means one of its sides is always

facing the star while the other is

always turned away the hot side is

heated to over 1800 degrees perpetually

blown over with winds reaching 600 miles

per hour despite dimidium being a gas

giant it has a large amount of iron in

it which melts and evaporates in the

atmosphere creating clouds and when

those cool down they fall on the surface

in the infernal rain of molten iron

oxygen is usually viewed as an element

that might bring life to a planet but

this is definitely not the case for

Osiris scientists were shocked to find

oxygen on this planet or rather around

it because it's eight times closer to

its star than Mercury is to the sun this

extreme distance makes Osiris a living

Melting Pot where anything that could

burn will it's also responsible for a

very short orbit of the planet around

the star a year on Osiris is just three

and a half days on Earth to boot the

atmosphere of the planet is constantly

blown and melted away by the heat from

its Sun

karate xo3b is neither is hot nor as

cold as some of the others on this list

but it's terrifying in its own more

Insidious way it's a gas giant similar

in size to Jupiter yet 20 times denser

this makes this exoplanet's gravity

weigh down on everything on its surface

50 times more than it would on Earth

stepping on it would be your ultimate

Doom because you'd be immediately

crushed by the density of its atmosphere

karate 7B is another oven-like world its

day-to-day temperature is over 4000

degrees combined with the rocky surface

it presents an infernal landscape the

rocks on the ground bubble and boil

evaporating in the atmosphere where they

cool down and eventually fall back on

the surface in a brimstone rain the

saddest thing about karate 7B is that it

might have once been a gas giant whose

atmosphere melted away from the heat

leaving only the scorched core

we're used to thinking that asteroids

are the only free-floating rocks in

space but things like ots-44 make you

think twice and shiver imagine a planet

about 11 times more massive than Jupiter

Roaming In Space without being bound to

the orbit of any Star given its

gargantuan size and mass if ots-44

collides with any other planet it would

utterly destroy it and go on floating as

if nothing happened scarier still

scientists are sure there are millions

of such rogue planets out there just

waiting to be discovered

there's no hard proof of their existence

yet but theoretically carbon planets

have formed somewhere closer to the

center of our galaxy any Oxygen getting

in their atmosphere will get into a

reaction with carbon and transform into

CO2 forming black toxic clouds on the

ground there would be oceans made of tar

spewing up geysers of methane and crude

oil there would be rains too but they'd

be far from refreshing torrents of pure

gasoline and hot liquid asphalt would

blast the ground and probably burst into

flames on impact hard to imagine

anything that would survive such

conditions

okay here you are in the middle of the

ocean it's endless but you can't see it

because there's a thick fog all around

you dense clouds hide the huge but dim

sun is it day or night you don't know

there's only a gray haze around you

you're alone even if you try to swim

down after several hours you still won't

be able to see the bottom of the ocean

and that's a typical water planet for

you I know sounded kind of dark but it's

not that bad these water worlds are more

interesting than they may seem so let's

take a look at them the ocean planet is

a planet that consists as you might have

guessed mainly of water ice and maybe

some rocks think of the Earth's oceans

it's horrifying depths the Mariana

Trench and all that and now can you

guess how much space all the water on

Earth takes up

0.025 percent exactly now just try to

imagine a world a 40 to 60 percent water

if you dive in there the depth can

exceed 60 miles compared to that the Six

Mile depth of our Mariana Trench sounds

like nothing and yeah the pressure there

will be enormous it can reach up to 20

000 Earth atmospheres very crushing now

it may sound scary but it still would be

great to find out more about these

planets fortunately according to

scientist calculations there may be a

lot of such planets in our galaxy alone

well you don't have to go far you can

find these water guys even in our solar

system not planets of course but moons

Jupiter has Ganymede and Callisto and

Saturn has Titan and Enceladus the ocean

can reach up to 30 percent of the mass

of these moons although it isn't clear

whether these oceans are covered with a

thick crust of eyes but we've discovered

quite a few full-fledged ocean planets

this is because the conditions in which

these planets may exist are very

specific for example this planet should

be somewhere six to eight times larger

than the earth if it's smaller it'll

have a rocky surface but if it's bigger

it'll turn into a gas giant at the same

time it must be in the habitable zone of

its star a little further and the planet

immediately turns into an icy giant or a

cold super Earth so yeah these guys are

very picky

we first started exploring these planets

back in the 1970s however since then we

found only a couple of them but they're

still very interesting the first planet

is galise 1214b it was the very first

ocean planet that we discovered

initially the scientists noticed only a

small dim dot this dot turned out to be

the red dwarf star glease 1214 an

unremarkable completely ordinary star

that's five times smaller than our sun

and 300 times dimmer scientists wouldn't

worry about it at all but back in 2009

they noticed that this star had one

single planet and this planet turned out

to be quite strange this super Earth was

two and a half times bigger than our

Earth and six and a half times heavier

but at the same time it had a very very

small density and about the same gravity

as our planet in other words there were

almost no rocks and metals on it but it

wasn't a gas giant either so there was

only one option left it was covered in

water and ice and that's how we

discovered the first ocean planet well

actually we can only assume that it

consists of water that's what the

mathematical calculations say in reality

this planet is quite confusing it's

difficult to explore and so far

scientists haven't been able to find

anything there no hydrogen no helium no

water NADA that's because the outer

layer of the atmosphere of this planet

is very dense and it perfectly High its

composition but even so it's probably a

water world

galise 1214b is very close to its star

it's only 0.014 astronomical units away

which is less than the distance between

the Moon and us the year there lasts

about 36 hours and the temperatures to

put it mildly are just wild scientists

suggest that the average temperature

there can reach 250 to 535 degrees

Fahrenheit that's hot

remember the creepy description from the

beginning well actually spending time on

Khaleesi 1214b would be a little

different more like swimming in a steam

boiler because of such gigantic

temperatures the ocean on the surface

will be constantly in the state close to

Boiling without actually reaching it so

imagine that you're descending to the

surface of this planet flying through

clouds of steam and then you suddenly

find yourself in the water what but when

did it happen well that's because the

boundary between Steam and water on

gliese 1214b will be very blurred of

course you won't be able to swim to the

bottom of this ocean but most likely

this bottom is covered with a very thick

layer of so-called hot eyes it's like

regular eyes but it doesn't really care

about the laws of physics so it just

doesn't melt even at gigantic

temperatures and the thickness of this

ice can reach as much as 3 000 miles so

that's it for for the creepy gliesy

1214b and not an Airbnb in sight now

although we can't 100 guarantee that

it's a water world we still have another

candidate for this position a newly

discovered planet called toi 1452b this

planet located in the dragon

constellation is almost 100 light years

away from us it was discovered using the

test telescope by a group of researchers

from the University of Montreal this

planet also belongs to the class of

super Earths it's seven times larger

than our planet but 48 times heavier

again all this is at a very low density

because of this scientists have

suggested that almost the entire planet

consists of a giant ocean here we were a

little luckier this world won't be just

a giant puddle and some thick eyes on

this planet there's probably a rocky

surface deep under the water just like

in a typical ocean don't get too excited

though this this ocean will certainly be

very different from what we're used to I

1452b also orbits a small red dwarf and

not even one but two at once at the same

time if the previous planet was close to

its Sun then this one on the contrary is

very very far away it's two and a half

times farther from its Stars than Pluto

is from the sun and it moves at great

speed a year there lasts only 11 days

but we still don't know many things

about this planet we'll probably get

some new information when scientists

observe it from the James Webb Telescope

well that's it wait did you expect

something else all right all right I

know the question that bothers you the

most can there be life well this is a

difficult question we all know that

water means life and besides these

planets are in the habitable zones of

Their Stars so potentially yes there

might be life not some full-fledged

civilizations of course but bacteria

fish and some creepy giant monsters I

mean you know why not however this is

very unlikely water alone isn't enough

to create life even though it's very

important there should also be some

micro elements and some minerals and

unfortunately for most water planets the

composition will only consist of water

and very thick eyes there won't be any

minerals there but don't give up there's

still some probability first of all

there are meteorites and comets they can

bring the necessary minerals to the

planet the more often they crash into it

the higher the probability that they'll

bring something like this into the ocean

and thus create life secondly toi 1452b

actually has these minerals yes we don't

know how deep the rocky bottom is

located there but if it exists then

surely something could have originated

there let's hope that new research with

powerful telescopes will allow us to

find out the truth and who knows maybe

one day we'll be able to visit such a

planet ourselves

the only life that we are certain about

so far in the entire universe is on

planet Earth whether that life is

intelligent is let's say arguable but

anyway it's not surprising that we're

tirelessly searching for life on other

planets so far they've discovered more

than 4 000 of them but what's even

cooler NASA has compiled a new list of

24 planets that aren't just Earth-like

they're better the conditions on them

are so good that they're more

comfortable than on our planet so let's

examine some of them

koi

5715.01 let's be coy shall we this

wonderful planet is in the constellation

cygnus and why is it so wonderful well

our sun is a yellow dwarf and sorry son

even though you're not bad at supporting

life there are some stars that can do it

better nothing personal the planet koi

5715.01 orbits near an orange dwarf

orange dwarfs are stars slightly smaller

than our sun and have a little lower

Luminosity uh did you like the

alliteration there anyway don't worry it

doesn't mean we're going to live in

complete darkness in fact if the planet

is found closer to the sun and it has a

thicker atmosphere it may even be

lighter and more colourful than on Earth

now our son has a very short lifespan

right now it has seven to eight billion

years left to live a little longer than

Earth's age but orange dwarfs can live

from 45 to 70 billion years this is

great not only because we'll be able to

hang out on this planet longer but also

because the planets around these stars

have more time to form life now ideally

we would need to find a planet next to

an orange dwarf that is about 7 billion

years old it's very likely there will be

at least some organisms there

koi

571501 is about 5.5 billion years old

yeah it may not seem mature enough but

that's okay neither do I our Earth is a

billion years younger and that didn't

stop us the planet is quite close to its

star and is in a habitable zone when

you're there last 190 days imagine going

to elementary school and already getting

a driver's license it's almost two times

larger than the earth the average

temperature there is 52 degrees

Fahrenheit which is slightly less than

ours 57 but it mostly feels warmer there

because strong gravity helps it hold on

to heat in the atmosphere longer it's a

little too far away though like 3 000

light years from Earth which is about 18

quadrillion miles yep better bring a

really big lunch with you

koi 3010.01

this planet is found next to the star

koi 2010

this planet sounds like a very pleasant

world the average temperature on this

planet is 67 degrees so a little warmer

than ours but that's a good thing

scientists believe that on a perfect

Planet the temperature should be just

about 10 degrees hotter than on Earth

the more heat there is on the planet the

more comfortable it is to live there

also the higher chances of developing

life the radius of this planet is nearly

one and a half times larger than Earth

there's some atmosphere although we're

not yet sure about its composition but

it's probably like the Earth's

scientists think that we'll find an

ocean there and it can cover up to 60

percent of the surface which is also

cool in a perfect world water and land

should be distributed more evenly than

on our planet a little more land means a

little more territory and resources

right but listen this planet is actually

very similar to the Earth the semblance

is so striking that scientists believe

we have an 84 percent chance to Define

life there of course not necessarily an

intelligent life but at least some

animals wouldn't that be cool now what

do you think they could look like hmm

very Earth-like planet but with stronger

gravity well if someone lives there

they're probably big but have a small

height and strong little legs sounds

adorable and scary but we won't be able

to find out the truth anytime soon so

far for us these planets are microscopic

dots in space we only have some dry

boring data about them and don't even

know what they look like we'll have to

wait until we can find a way to get

closer to these planets

Kepler 186f

this is also one of the best candidates

for having life this rather acute planet

was nicknamed the Earth's cousin because

it does have a strong resemblance anyway

these two planets are like sisters not

twins

Kepler-186f rotates near a red dwarf red

dwarfs are stars even dimmer and smaller

than orange dwarfs yeah they'll also

live for a very very long time but their

Luminosity is also quite low however

Kepler-186f is closer to its star than

were to our sun so it shouldn't be too

dark there well at least not night like

dark the sky on this planet is sure to

be an unusual shade of red like sunsets

on Earth what do you think would you

like to live on a planet with an eternal

sunset the size of this planet is about

the same as Earth not bad not perfect

why so because the coolest planets are

those that are bigger than Earth and

have stronger gravity now you'll

probably say but wouldn't it be harder

to walk there and even harder to get out

of bed on Monday of course but on the

other hand this planet will pull the

atmosphere better the atmosphere will be

thicker and denser this means more

protection from the scary space stuff

more oxygen and more heat not to mention

the fact that the bigger planets have

more space to settle awesome right but

of course the Earth's size is also an

excellent choice

another cool fact is that the tilt of

Kepler-186f is about the same as ours it

means that there should be stable

seasons and a normal day night cycle do

you know how important the tilt of the

planet is let's look at Mars Mars is

also in fact found in the habitable zone

of our sun but its tilt is very unstable

and as a result the entire ocean that

could have been on it once now

completely dried up today is just a red

desert and there's no life there at

least not as far as we know but you see

how important these tiny details are

this planet is also quite far away from

us 490 light years it's about three

quadrillion miles so yeah we're just

going to keep waiting for Intergalactic

travel

Kepler 62e and 62f

these planets were called the most

Earth-like before we discovered

Kepler-186f they're very comparable to

our home

kepler-62e is about one and a half times

larger than Earth and kepler-62f is just

slightly smaller than that they're

located in the constellation Lyra which

is about 1200 light years away from us

they both also orbit a red dwarf one

year on kepler-62e lasts about 122 days

even less than on that first planet we

talked about

scientists believe that both 62e and 62f

are sort of water worlds warm places

mostly or even completely covered with

water if there is land there it's

probably just some islands hmm a world

consisting entirely of islands a fantasy

dream for some think Hawaii and a

nightmare for others think Megalodon but

if you're a fan of ancient marine

animals just imagine how gigantic they

could be there

still there are many things we don't

know about this planet does it have a

surface what about its composition

density one day maybe we'll be able to

answer these questions

and so that's it for the super Earths of

course the original list is much longer

and you can go check it out on the

internet now the best thing about all

this is that these are planets that are

better than the Earth

but we also know thousands of other

exoplanets that are just close enough to

ours and the odds are a few of them have

at least some form of life but they're

very very far away so we have no way to

check it out right now perhaps down the

road we'll find some cool creatures on

many of them.