Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.

I'm Ashley Hamer.

And I'm Natalia Reagan. Today you'll learn about superhabitable planets that may have conditions better for life than Earth.

Then biologists and best-selling author Neil Schubin will explain a common misconception

about how animals evolve. Let's satisfy some curiosity.

As far as planets go, Earth seems, well,

unbeatable.

We've got mild temps, liquid water, an atmosphere.

What more could we want, aside from teleporation? liquid water, an atmosphere?

What more could we want, aside from teleportation?

Well, I'm about to tell you, because it turns out that Earth may not be the best possible

place for life out there. Scientists have recently identified a couple dozen

faraway planets that aren't just habitable. They're super habitable. That means

they might even be friendlier to complex life than Earth. To be clear, there's no evidence that

any of these 24 exoplanets are home to any life at all, but they sure have a lot of potential.

The first criterion that all the contenders have to

meet is probably obvious. They had to have liquid water. That's most likely to

happen when a planet is at the right distance from its star, not too close, not too far.

That's a box that Earth can check too. Next, the researchers considered the star the planet orbits.

The Sun is what's called a G-Star. There's nothing wrong with G-Stars, but they have a small

drawback when it comes to the appearance of life, a short lifespan. The Sun will be lucky to see its 10 billionth birthday.

That's less than ideal because life takes forever to emerge.

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