A novel study finds exomoons to be a probable contender for harboring life. As per researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso, moons in close binary solar systems have better chance to host life in comparison to single-star systems.

Explaining the reason, researchers said two stars are there to calm each other down in terms of activity. Moreover, binary stars reduce each other's solar radiation and stellar winds, henceforth, creating a more hospitable environment for life.

Researchers based their study findings on the data gathered from NASA's Kepler spacecraft mission. Main aim was to know about potentially habitable planets in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.

Astrophysicist Paul Mason said sun-like stars are better and solar twins would be an ideal circumstance. Mason said if the sun would have a companion star then the composition of the solar system would change a lot.
"Solar-type stars with companions work really well. They work better than our own solar-type star without a companion", affirmed Mason.

Researchers found that a number of planets have been discovered outside the solar system, but no moons have been confirmed yet. For the research, Mason and team focused on pairs of stars that orbit each other between 10 and 60 earth days.