February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...be more like Venus with surface temperatures unable to support liquid water or life. While the Giant Impact model is being...Moreno, Slawomira Szutowicz, Geoffrey A. Blake (2011) Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2, Nature, 478, ...
04 January 2016
Researchers find a new way to calculate the pull of gravity at the surface of a star
... planet around it is the right size and temperature to have water oceans, and maybe life," said Matthews. Surface gravity depends on...the planet is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist, can help constrain future exoplanet surveys in ...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
... ALMA data found that there is likely a layer of liquid water. “Our ALMA observations are the first to show that ... energetic plumes are triggered by moist convection at the base of water clouds, which are located deep in the atmosphere. The plumes ...
29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
..., after the region in Antarctica it was found in, contains orange-coloured carbonate minerals, which precipitated from salty liquid water on Mars' near-surface 4 billion years ago. The martian meteorite is well studied, but so far contamination with...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... bantam suns have planets in the so-called ‘habitable zone’ – an orbital distance at which temperatures could be suitable for liquid-water oceans. Red dwarfs also have the advantage of enjoying extremely long lifetimes – 10 times that of a Sun-like...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... orbital periods similar to Earth’s. This means that the habitable zone (the range of orbital periods where liquid water could exist) for stars like the Sun remains relatively unexplored. An artist’s impression of the PLATO satellite...
