11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
...) microbes populate the kind of habitats that occur on Mars, prompting some scientists to ask whether these transient liquid water environments could be hospitable for life on the Red Planet. One such study by Eriita Jones at the University...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...this remarkable moon an ideal target to search for biomarkers. Its habitability is also bolstered by the idea that if a liquid-water ocean on Titan is as geologically active as those on our planet, it might give rise to other Earth-like features such...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... German universities were also involved in these efforts. Illustration of the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust. Thickness of layers shown here is not to scale. The...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... that a rocky planet was orbiting around our nearest star in a favourable location and that it might have liquid water on its surface, the prospect of visiting an Earth-like world moved from the realm of science fiction to a tantalising...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
... from the main body by strips of dry material. “Our results strengthen the claim of the detection of a liquid water body at Ultimi Scopuli and indicate the presence of other wet areas nearby,” say the team in their ...
26 November 2021
A closer Moon could have helped the early habitability of our planet
... prokaryotic organisms, and bacteria. But even at this early stage, for life as we know it to flourish, it needs access to liquid water – even bacteria need it to survive. This ‘simple’ requirement however does throw a spanner in the works when Earth...
