05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... with planet-star systems where probable terrestrial planets could be orbiting within the host star's liquid water habitable zone. Water is key to life as we know it and the authors argue that a little more of it would help, especially in the...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... Celsius (805 kelvin), chances are that LHS 3844 b doesn’t have any either. “Life as we know it requires liquid water and complex molecules (amino acids, nucleotides). Such molecules cannot survive in temperatures greater than 200 degrees...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
... associated with life on other planets; coupled with a subsurface liquid ocean, it is a tantalising prospect that life could be ... our outer Solar System could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked exciting possibilities ...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. ... olivine erupted with lava becomes serpentine upon contact with liquid water in a timescale between 100 and 10,000 years. ...
31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
Of the thousands of planets discovered so far, Earth is the only one known to have liquid water on its surface and how it got that water is a matter of much debate. But now a new study on hydrogen found in a special type of meteorite suggests that...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... 500 degree Celsius range. Their surface may be shrouded in a water-vapour-dominated atmosphere, with a liquid water layer underneath. Moving deeper, one would expect to find this water transforms into high-pressure ices before we reaching the solid...
