For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable ...

“The presence of liquid water is considered critical for planetary habitability,” she said. “This work demonstrates that large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet ...

What is the habitability potential on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a ...

The habitable zone : basic concepts / S.R. Kane -- Exoplanets : criteria for their habitability and possible biospheres / J.L. Grenfell et al. -- The habitable zone and the generalized greenhouse ...

Water is essential for life on Earth. So, the liquid must be a requirement for life on other worlds. For decades, scientists’ definition of habitability on other planets has rested on this assumption.

Understanding planetary habitability is one of the major challenges of the current scientific era. Though traditionally viewed through the lens of our home planet and its evolutionary history, data ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...