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The Milky Way may have ‘ocean worlds’ everywhere, says NASA

A recently published study by NASA researchers suggests that there may be planets in the Milky Way galaxy other than Earth that have an ocean. The research, published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, notes that more than a quarter of the 53 exoplanets (planets outside the …

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Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting temperate orbits around low-mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitability

[ad_1] Terrestrial planets in temperate orbits around very low-mass stars are likely to have evolved in a very different way than planets in the solar system, and in particular Earth. However, because these are the first planets that are and will be accessible for deep characterization of the atmosphere, clouds, …

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