Sentences with phrase «to have liquid water on one's surface»

All seven planets discovered in the system could potentially have liquid water on their surfaces, though their orbital distances make some of them more likely candidates than others.

Point 3 — There was division of waters, especially since you can not have liquid water on the surface of the earth without a sun to provide heat.

Studies of hydrogen molecules in the Venusian atmosphere by NASA's Pioneer - Venus probe indicate that the planet once had liquid water on its surface, perhaps even expansive oceans.

All they know is that the planet receives the right amount of solar energy to conceivably have liquid water on its surface.

The scientist cited models suggesting that Venus used to have a habitable climate and had liquid water on the surface for up to 2 billion years, which is much longer compared with what is believed to have occurred on Mars.

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.

«The still nameless planet is believed to be Earth - like and orbits at a distance to Proxima Centauri that could allow it to have liquid water on its surface — an important requirement for the emergence of life.»

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

He said: «We used the «habitable zone» concept to make these estimates - this is the distance from a planet's star at which temperatures are conducive to having liquid water on the surface.»

If protected by a thick, cloudy atmosphere, it could have liquid water on its surface.

Today, Mars is too cold to have liquid water on its surface.

«In this solar system, Earth is unique because we have liquid water on the surface.

But settle comfortably into the habitable zone, and your planet could have liquid water on its surface — just right.

Which of the (small) planets are truly habitable, i.e., that they have liquid water on their surfaces?

«This is really the first «Goldilocks» planet, the first planet that is roughly the right size and just at the right distance to have liquid water on the surface,» astronomer Paul Butler, with the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., told reporters during a conference call Wednesday.

The habitable zone — sometimes referred to the «Goldilocks» zone by the media and the surface water liquid zone by scientists — is the range of distance from the star in which a planet orbiting it could have liquid water on its surface.

Hence, all of the known planets of 61 vir orbit withing the star's habitable zone's inner edge and so are presumed to be too hot to have liquid water on their surface.

Sometimes referred to as the «Goldilocks» zone by the media and the «surface water liquid zone» by scientists, the habitable zone refers to the range of distance from the star in which a planet orbiting it could have liquid water on its surface.

In 2003, astronomers at the University of Texas at Arlington performed refined calculations to determine that the habitable zone around 47 Ursae Majoris, where an inner rocky planet (with suitable mass and atmospheric gas composition and density) can have liquid water on its surface, lies between 1.05 and 1.83 AUs of the star.

Some astronomers have speculated that a tidally heated moon around planet b could have liquid water on its surface.

For any star, it's possible to calculate the range of distances where orbiting planets could have liquid water on the surface.

«This discovery is really the start of a whole new era studying Earth - like planets which may have liquid water on the surface,» said Maria Womack, National Science Foundation program officer.

The distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet could have liquid water on its surface is centered around 1.35 AU — between Earth's and somewhat short of Mars» orbital distance of 1.5 AUs in the Solar System.

According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from 41 Arae B where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.593 and 1.176 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Earth in the Solar System.

Since K2 - 18b is likely rocky, this means the planet could have liquid water on its surface, which is one of many conditions for supporting life.

The planet is also a super-Earth, but likely orbits too close to its parent star to have liquid water on its surface.

They are known as Trans - Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and are far too cold to have liquid water on their surfaces, where temperatures are less than 350 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (below minus 200 Celsius).

The distance from EV Lac where an Earth - type planet would have liquid water on its surface is centered around 0.165 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury's orbital distance in the Solar System.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2014 — San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.

Accounting for the relatively greater infrared output of M - stars like Kapteyn's Star, the distance from Kapteyn's where an Earth - type planet would have liquid water on its surface is centered around only 0.158 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.