25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... at least. To account for this anomaly, Glein and Waite suggest the lack of CO is the result of chemical modification by liquid water, and that the missing CO could be hidden away in a subsurface ocean. It would not be the first time though...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... habitable zone of their parent stars. This ‘Goldilocks zone’ as it has become known, is within a region where liquid water - a vital ingredient to life as we know it - might be free to contribute to rivers or oceans on the planet surface. Although...
01 May 2019
Evidence for first confirmed exomoon under question
The next holy grail in exoplanet detection, beyond finding an Earth 2.0 complete with liquid water and a substantial and non-toxic atmosphere, is undoubtedly to find the first confirmed exomoon. So, when news spread ...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
..., which future studies could help determine, “it could trap enough heat to warm the planet and allow liquid water on its surface,” said co-author Diana Kossakowski at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Wasting...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
...for 'life as we know it' on nearby stars - in particular those known to host planets with the potential for liquid water on their surfaces. “The expanded search capabilities that Breakthrough Listen has made possible allow us to consider a much ...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
...today. Instead, evidence discovered by on the ground rovers and orbital missions point to long, stable periods where liquid water prospered on the martian surface. These considerably wetter conditions could, if they endured long enough, have provided...
