Earth-mass exoplanets on year-long orbits and cool gas giants (CGG) on decade-long orbits lie at the edge of current detection limits.
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A Gaian Habitable Zone
When searching for inhabited exoplanets, understanding the boundaries of the habitable zone around the parent star is key.
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Earth Can Regulate Its Own Temperature Over Millennia
The Earth’s climate has undergone some big changes, from global volcanism to planet-cooling ice ages and dramatic shifts in solar radiation. And yet life, for the last 3.7 billion years, […]
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Staying Habitable: How An Intelligent Species Should Treat Their Planetary Ocean
Humanity’s relationship with the Ocean needs to be transformed to effectively address the multitude of governance crises facing the Ocean, including overfishing, climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release
European Satellite Could Discover Thousands of Planets
Princeton University and Lund University researchers project that the recently launched European satellite Gaia could discover tens of thousands of planets during its five-year mission. In this image, the colored […]