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...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... in the habitable zones of its star--the range of distances from a star in which a rocky planet could host liquid water, and potentially life, on its surface. "My calculations place an upper limit of 0.18 Earth-like planets per G-type star...
