Salt Might Be the Key to Extraterrestrial Life
New research suggests that salt might be critical to life on Earth and beyond. The composition of the atmosphere, particularly the abundance of greenhouse gases,…
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Tidal Heating Suggests Less Habitable Planets
Tidal heating, which is basically the gravitational heating of a planet via tides, suggests that the number of habitable planets could be roughly half of…
Team of International Scientists Discover New Super-Earth
Using public data from the European Southern Observatory with measurements from the Keck Observatory’s High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph and the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph at…
Chemistry Might Influence Habitable Zones Around Extrasolar Systems
Trace elements in extrasolar systems might influence the evolution of habitable zones around their stars, where carbon-based life as we know it might dwell. Most…
Scientists Rank Most Livable Alien Worlds
In the old days it used to be largely guess-work when determining which alien worlds might be most livable, but not anymore. These days we…