In the past few decades, thousands of extra-solar planets have been discovered within our galaxy. As of July 28th, 2018, a total of 3,374 extra-solar planets have been confirmed in 2,814 planetary systems. While the majority of these planets have been gas giants, an increasing number have been terrestrial (i.e. rocky) in nature and were found to be orbiting within their stars' respective habitable zones (HZ).
However, as the case of the Solar System shows, HZs do not necessary mean a planet can support life. Even though Mars and Venus are at the inner and the outer edge of the Sun's HZ (respectively), neither is capable of supporting life on its surface. And with more potentially-habitable planets being discovered all the time, a new study suggests that it might be time to refine our definition of habitable zones.
Welcome to the Inhospitable Zone.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:10AM
VLM is either a permanent troll or has gone utterly, completely mad on race-hatred. And it's not too easy to distinguish the two, given how at least one actual honest-to-cheese neo-Nazi specifically said part of the strategy was to pretend to be pretending.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...