• Question: What exoplanet that we have discovered is most likely to have life on it?

    Asked by type1nun on 26 Apr 2024.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 26 Apr 2024:


      There is the potential for life on any exoplanet that orbits in the so-called Goldilockโ€™s zone around itโ€™s star. That means the planet is not to close to the star to make water into steam and not too far from the star to turn it to ice. Itโ€™s in the just right zone where water is liquid. Given that the chemistry that occurred in the pre-stellar nebula from which our sun and planets formed is pretty universal then there is every likelihood that the same chemistry would have occurred in the pre-stellar nebula from which that exoplanet formed and so there is a chance for biology to evolve from the chemistry.

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