22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
...have been relatively hot in the beginning and had a subsurface liquid ocean early in its development; a finding that has implications ... planets in the Kuiper belt, started off with liquid water oceans and some “will probably have undergone extensive ...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... crater provides a similar environment and at both poles there is believed to be frozen water in the crater shadow regions which may provide a source for a liquid water supply chain. With one of the major roles of a lunar colony being to provide...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
...a planet habitable for life as we know, such as liquid water and a decent non-toxic atmosphere, are long lost, ...see that if conditions are not right, such as a lack of liquid water or a toxic or thin atmosphere, then the chances of intelligent life...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... a big meteorite impact triggered the first tsunami wave. This wave was composed of liquid water. It formed widespread backwash channels to carry the water back to the ocean," said Alberto Fairén, Cornell visiting scientist in astronomy and principal...
28 August 2016
How habitable is Proxima b?
..., Spain, have modelled the radiation received over the planet’s lifetime to asses the planet’s ability to maintain liquid water on its surface. The team calculate that Proxima b currently receives 30 times more extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
...surface. The leading explanation at the time for how briny liquid water was sloshing around below Ceres’ surface was put down ... source, in which the salts play a major role in preserving liquid in this heat-starved body, say the team. Ceres’ ocean ...