Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...
Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...
For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...