Sentences with phrase «liquid surface water»

Three orbit in the star's conservative habitable zone, the region where liquid surface water might exist.

Their moons, though, might have the right conditions for liquid surface water and therefore for life to emerge and evolve.

Water vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we know it.

The study, which took five years, only looked for planets that orbited rather close to their parent stars (unless the planet is very large the signal from its gravitational hug is too slight to detect with today's technology) so this batch won't produce good candidates for worlds with liquid surface water that might be suited for life.

Gliese 581 d orbits within its host star's habitable zone and so may have liquid surface water in a deep global ocean, as a «water world» (more).

Dubbed Proxima b, it sits smack in the middle of its star's habitable zone, where liquid surface water — and thus possibly life — could exist.

Kepler - 186f appears to be orbiting at the outer edge of the habitable zone around its star, which could mean that any liquid surface water would be in danger of freezing, Kane said.

When the planet K2 - 18b was first discovered in 2015, it was found to be orbiting within the star's habitable zone, making it an ideal candidate to have liquid surface water, a key element in harbouring conditions for life as we know it.