Latest Natural satellite habitability Stories

[ Planet Hunting: Your Universe Today Podcasts ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life have begun to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside our solar system, and new research has found that they are just as likely to support life as exoplanets. René Heller of Germany's Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and Rory Barnes of the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In the hunt for the elusive "blue dot" exoplanet – a planet with roughly the same characteristics as Earth – astronomers have discovered a veritable rogue's gallery of oddballs. From scorching hot worlds with molten surfaces to frigid ice balls, the planets outside our solar system are vastly different. New research, published in the Astrobiology journal, reveals that life might actually be able to survive on some of the many...