habitable planets

New ideas on what makes a planet habitable could reshape the search for life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 8, 2021
Some planets in the habitable zone are not good for life, but others outside it might be

By David Aragorn
Cool Places We Could Migrate to Beyond Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 27, 2021
Our solar system is home to some unusual places we could potentially migrate to if Earth were to die.

By David Aragorn
300 million habitable planets in our Milky Way galaxy, say scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 13, 2020
There are at least 300 million habitable planets in the Milky Way, new NASA research has shown – hinting that it’s less likely that humanity is alone in the universe.

By David Aragorn
This gas-giant exoplanet has water-rich clouds. Here’s why it thrills astronomers.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2020
Three teams of astronomers have been fascinated by an alien world known as K2-18b. But what’s all the fuss about?

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover alien planet that could be habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2020
K2-18b is thought to host conditions that are suitable for life sustenance.

By David Aragorn
X-rays could sterilize alien planets in (otherwise) habitable zones 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2018
Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth-like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
Hubble delivers first insight into atmospheres of potentially habitable planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 5, 2018
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near TRAPPIST-1’s habitable zone. The new results further support the terrestrial and potentially habitable nature of three of the studied planets. The results are published in Nature Astronomy.

By David Aragorn
TRAPPIST-1 system planets potentially habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2018
Two exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.

By David Aragorn
Whilst The Human Race Sleeps, NASA Have Already Discovered a 100 Habitable Planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 8, 2017
It has recently been announced (never very loudly) that NASA’S Kepler spacecraft has found at least more than 100 confirmed alien planets – and probably far more than they actually make out to have discovered!

By David Aragorn
NASA found a bunch more potentially habitable planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
But our days of massive exoplanet dumps may be numbered.

By David Aragorn