Want To Live On An Icy Snowball Of A Planet?
- 5 years ago
According to Digital Trends, astronomers say an exoplanet should be a rocky planet that lies in the habitable zone.
That's the area of distance from a star at which water can exist on a planet’s surface as liquid.
But a new study suggests that even frozen, icy planets could be theoretically capable of supporting life.
Canadian researchers looked at Earth-sized “snowball planets,” which have oceans that are frozen all the way to their equators.
That's the area of distance from a star at which water can exist on a planet’s surface as liquid.
But a new study suggests that even frozen, icy planets could be theoretically capable of supporting life.
Canadian researchers looked at Earth-sized “snowball planets,” which have oceans that are frozen all the way to their equators.