liquid water
Ice-penetrating radar will help JUICE and other spacecraft find water beyond Earth
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Dr. Sarah Adams
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) left Earth a year ago, embarking on a mission to explore Jupiter’s potential ocean moons — ...
Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life − my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus stands out. ...
Saturn’s ocean moon Titan may not be able to support life after all
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Titan’s underground ocean, and similar oceans inside other icy moons in the outer solar system, may lack the organic chemistry necessary for ...
NASA exoplanet telescope discovers ‘super-Earth’ in its star’s Goldilocks zone
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Dr. Sarah Adams
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has spotted a ‘super-Earth’ planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a relatively nearby red dwarf ...
James Webb Space Telescope could look for ‘carbon-lite’ exoplanet atmospheres in search for alien life
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Dr. Sarah Adams
When it comes to detecting the presence of liquid water on planets outside the solar system, and thus the conditions needed for ...
