Could moons beyond our solar system support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Soci | Space ...

Moons orbiting free-floating planets, planets drifting through space without a parent star, might seem like unlikely candidates for life. However, a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the ...

Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at ...

A new study suggests that moons orbiting free-floating planets, with dense hydrogen atmospheres and tidal heating, could ...

Moons orbiting free-floating planets can sustain liquid oceans for up to 4.3 billion years through hydrogen atmospheres and tidal heating. These conditions could support life, akin to early Earth.

We perform numerical simulations of the TRAPPIST-1 system of seven exoplanets orbiting a nearby M dwarf, starting with a previously suggested stable configuration. The long-term stability of this ...

"Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy. "It provides the warmth necessary to form and sustain ...

Astronomers searching for rocky planets that could support life in other solar systems should look outside, as well as within, the so-called “habitable zone,” University of Arizona planetary ...