Sentences with phrase «habitable moons orbiting»

Artist's concept of a habitable moon orbiting a giant gas planet.

Not exact matches

Recent surveys of faraway stars have focused on finding Earth - size objects orbiting in what is known as the habitable zone, the region where liquid water could presumably exist on the surface of a planet or a moon.

The transit zone is rich in host stars for planetary systems, offering approximately 100,000 potential targets, each potentially orbited by habitable planets and moons, the scientists say — and that's just the number we can see with today's radio telescope technologies.

«Systems like those that we investigated, and moon systems orbiting a habitable - zone giant planet, are among the few scenarios where life — intelligent life in particular — could exist in two places at the same time and in the same system.»

We focus on planets and moons orbiting stars bright enough for future atmosphere follow - up, especially Mini - to Super-Earths (rocky terrestrial planets of 0.5 - 10 Earth masses) orbiting in the «Habitable Zones» around their host stars.

That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.

GJ 1214 is a red dwarf star with one known planet in a hot inner orbit, beyond even the inner edge of the star's close - in habitable zone, as imagined by Aguilar with two hypothetical moons (more).

A more recently announced exoplanet, Kepler - 453b, is also a circumbinary and a gas giant, though its orbit within its star's habitable zone means any moons it might have could be hospitable to life.