27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
... can have all the right conditions for life, but if most of the water is locked up at the poles, then it becomes difficult to have sufficient amounts of liquid water near the equator." A composite image showing alternating layers of ice and...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... would cut the cumulative dose by about a third. Remember the crew will have to take quite a lot of liquid water with them anyway and it wouldn’t make any sense to store such a cargo in the very centre of the...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
... ago. These prominent geological features can be seen here on Earth and are caused by long-standing surface liquid water eroding the ground over a substantial timescale. Finding these same characteristics on Mars further implies that if they...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
...-light nanocrafts powered by ground-based lasers may be a possibility The heat produced by the radioactive decay supported liquid water pools in a large number of comets in the solar system for the first several hundred million years and...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... went through the toilet, which might sound disgusting, but it is purer than the water most people drink at home. Because liquid water, especially the scarce fresh kind, is an essential requirement for all life on Earth (right down...
07 October 2016
Proxima b may be be home to oceans, says CNRS
... not necessarily mean that Proxima b's surface is too hot" for water to exist in liquid form, said a CNRS statement on Thursday, October 6. "The planet may very well host liquid water on its surface, and therefore also some forms of life...
