How can scientists estimate the pH level of Enceladus' subsurface ocean without landing on its surface? This is what a study ...

Earths, vast underground oceans of molten rock may be quietly doing the work of life’s first line of defense: generating ...

How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

A stratum of molten rock located deep within certain rocky planets may be exerting influence beyond merely shaping their ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

What is the habitability potential on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's Luke Bouma is exploring a new way to probe this critical question—using ...

Understanding planetary habitability is one of the major challenges of the current scientific era. Though traditionally viewed through the lens of our home planet and its evolutionary history, data ...

The habitable zone : basic concepts / S.R. Kane -- Exoplanets : criteria for their habitability and possible biospheres / J.L. Grenfell et al. -- The habitable zone and the generalized greenhouse ...