The relative abundances of exotic environments provides us with (uninformed) bounds on the habitability of those environments relative to our own, on the basis that our presence here is not […]
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Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Space Weather & Heliophysics, Status Report
Multiverse Predictions For Habitability: Stellar And Atmospheric Habitability
Stellar activity and planetary atmospheric properties have the potential to strongly influence habitability. To date, neither have been adequately studied in the multiverse context, so there has been no assessment […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Habitable Zones, Origin & Evolution of Life, Panspermia, Status Report
Multiverse Predictions For Habitability: Origin Of Life Scenarios
If the origin of life is rare and sensitive to the local conditions at the site of its emergence, then, using the principle of mediocrity within a multiverse framework, we […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Planetary Characteristics
Recent detections of potentially habitable exoplanets around sunlike stars demand increased exploration of the physical conditions that can sustain life, by whatever methods available.
Posted inHabitable Zones, Press Release
Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Habitable Planets
How good is our universe at making habitable planets? The answer to this depends on which factors are important for life: Does a planet need to be Earth mass? Does […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Press Release
Could A Multiverse Be Hospitable To Life?
A Multiverse – where our Universe is only one of many – might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new research.