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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...