Sentences with phrase «to support life as someone know something»

«But it also gives us a clue about what signatures of other planets might look like, especially if they are capable of supporting life as we know it.»

Liquid water means the planet could theoretically support life as we know it.

Before this discovery, NASA had identified 12 exoplanets that are within the so - called Goldilocks zone, the orbital area around a star that could potentially support life as we know it.

It's our ability to survive, it's not the planet's ability, the planet will still be here, nature will continue, it may take on a different form or shape, but that shape may not support life as we know it.

Baross says he thinks Europa is the second most likely place in the solar system, after Mars, to be capable of supporting life as we know it.

Perhaps given the billions upon billions of planets in our galaxy that could support life as we know it (and many more with life possibly based on another element besides carbon), we shouldn't discount possibilities like a more intelligent life form than ours having actually seeded the Earth with plant and animal life.

Researchers say this antifreeze effect makes it possible for liquid water to be widespread just below the surface of Mars, but point out that even if it is there, it may be too salty to support life as we know it.

To support life as we know it, planets must have liquid water and orbit in the right place in their solar systems, not too close and not too far from their star.

New insights into how Jupiter's atmosphere is influenced by the Sun will help us characterise the atmospheres of exoplanets, giving us clues about whether a planet is likely to support life as we know it,» said study supervisor, Professor Graziella Branduardi - Raymont, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

No other places in the cosmos could support life as we know it.

«Any planets that might orbit it would be much too cold to support life as we know it» Luhman said.

The $ 670 million MAVEN mission, which is slated to arrive in an elliptical orbit around Mars in September 2014, aims to help researchers understand how this happened and what the consquences have been for the planet's ability to support life as we know it.

Mission scientists have determined that this stuff is coming from a huge ocean of liquid water beneath the satellite's shell — and that this ocean may be capable of supporting life as we know it.

Despite this, the 8.4 million mile distance between the super-Earth and the star likely make the planet far too hot to support life as we know it.

Goldilocks zone A term that astronomers use for a region out from a star where conditions there might allow a planet to support life as we know it.

«Maven will focus on the history of Mars's atmosphere and whether it was able to support life as we know it.»

The information Cassini gathered during these passes strongly suggests that Enceladus harbors a large ocean beneath its icy shell, and that this ocean might be able to support life as we know it, mission team members have said.

The authors of a study published November 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now conclude that between 14 and 30 out of every 100 stars with a mass and temperature similar to the sun may host a planet that could support life as we know it.

Ingredients for Life Scientists have gathered enough information about other planets in our solar system to know that none can support life as we know it.

One only has to look to the planets to our immediate right and left to see that it's eminently possible for an atmosphere not to support life as we know it.