Sentences with phrase «habitability by»

However, Brain and his colleagues have considered a particularly challenging situation for habitability by placing Mars around an M - class star.

Not exact matches

In November a team led by Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze - Makuch devised the Planetary Habitability Index, or PHI, a scoring system for distant worlds that measures their suitability for any kind of life, not merely life as we know it.

Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth - size planets.

By studying the habitability of the Universe throughout cosmic history from the birth of the first stars 30 million years after the Big Bang to the death of the last stars in ten trillion years, I concluded6, 7 that unless habitability around low mass stars is suppressed, life is most likely to exist near dwarf stars like Proxima or TRAPPIST - 1 ten trillion years from now.

«On the coevolution of life and planet habitability» by Regis Ferriere, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UofA and Ecole Normale Superieure & Antonin Affholder, grad student, School of Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Planets that are regularly swapped between their stars may be unlikely candidates for habitability, but the more compact a planetary system, the less likely a planet will be stolen by a passing star.

The recently discovered HD 40307 g is now ranked fourth in a list of potentially habitable planets by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico.

The study does not address whether Proxima Centauri's activity cycle would affect the potential habitability of the planet Proxima b. Theory suggests that flares or a stellar wind, both of which are driven by magnetic fields, could scour the planet and strip away any atmosphere.

A total of 47 exoplanets and exomoons are potential habitable candidates, according to the online ranking of bodies outside our solar system by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.

Acting Captain, Christopher (Crudup), wants to show strength by making a command decision to halt their current path and investigate the planet's habitability as well as the distress signal.

If one of these habitability concerns exists, you can notify a landlord in Idaho in person, by certified mail, or by leaving it with an employee at the landlord's place of business.

Led by Dr. James E. Hansen from 1981 to 2013, research at GISS emphasized a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man - made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one - time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal / annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

As Mashey documents here, so well, this whole party has been a set - up, with scientists on one side, bound by the rules of evidence and by their own integrity, and think tanks, PR counsellors and their aides and allies on the other side, using any technique aailable (including, apparently, obtaining, using and disseminating stolen emails), to defend the right of fossil fuel companies to continue, unrestrained, in the sale and distribution of a substance that is threatening the human habitability of planet earth.

Injuries on residential property caused by a negligent landlord (may be liable for negligence as well as for breach of warranty of habitability claims)

If one of these habitability concerns exists, you can notify a landlord in Idaho in person, by certified mail, or by leaving it with an employee at the landlord's place of business.

Keep in mind that your landlord is required by law to repair major problems in your abode, but he is not always for minor repairs that don't impact the habitability of the space.

According to Rich Vetstein, «The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has held that off - site physical conditions may require disclosure if the conditions are unknown and not readily observable by the buyer and if the existence of those conditions is of sufficient materiality to affect the habitability, use, or enjoyment of the property and, therefore, render the property substantially less desirable or valuable to the objectively reasonable buyer.»

For the commercial sale of a new house by its builder / vendor, Alabama applies an implied warranty of fitness and habitability.