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...
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
...,” says Leleu. Although none of the six exoplanets found lies in the star's habitable zone – an area in which liquid water might be found on a planet’s surface – the researchers suggest that by following their earlier plan of continuing the resonance...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... about the same size and temperature as our Sun, meaning their habitable zone, the range where liquid water is possible on the surface of any orbiting exoplanet, are about the same size as ours. The team acknowledge...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... an exoplanet’s habitable zone, the region where a terrestrial-like planet orbiting its host star can support liquid water on its surface, is very challenging. It would seem almost futile then to search for planets suitable for life...
09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... distinct surface fractures that converge at a central point. On Earth, similar fractures in desert environments might be a clue to past liquid water activity and thus past habitability. The shoe-boxed size helicopter has since completed its 11th...
13 April 2019
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn
... Cassini Project Scientist at JPL, sums it up well: “With organic molecules, and tidal heating producing a global subsurface liquid water ocean and a possible hydrothermal vent system on the seafloor, Enceladus’ ocean could harbor the ingredients for...
