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posted by takyon on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-Fermi-GAP dept.

The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life

Researchers have identified more than 100 giant exoplanets that may have potentially life-hosting moons. The new analysis could change the way scientists search for life in the cosmos, study team members said. That search has generally focused on places more or less like Earth — rocky planets in the "habitable zone" of their host star, that just-right range of distances where liquid water could exist on a world's surface. Jupiter-like planets don't seem like good candidates in this regard, because they have no discernible surface. But the rocky moons of such gas giants may be a different story, study team members said.

Also at University of California, Riverside.

Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone (arXiv:1805.03370)


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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:18AM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:18AM (#689189)

    I don't think anyone does. We just don't bother trying to find strictly subteranian life because it would be nigh impossible to find it from where we are.

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