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Dark-world oceans: moons around sunless rogue planets could harbor life for billions of years

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Dark-world oceans: moons around sunless rogue planets could harbor life for billions of years
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New simulations suggest Earth-sized moons orbiting free-floating, starless rogue planets could remain warm enough to keep liquid water on their surfaces for up to 4.3 billion years, thanks to tidal heating and insulating hydrogen atmospheres, potentially expanding habitable environments beyond traditional stellar zones.

Topics:sciencespace-exploration#exomoon#habitability#liquid-water#rogue-planet#space-exploration#tidal-heating
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  1. No sun, no problem? How life could thrive on moons of starless 'rogue' planets  Space
  2. Moons Around Rogue Planets Could Have The Conditions to Support Life  ScienceAlert
  3. Alien Life Might Exist on the Starless Moons of Rogue Planets, Scientists Say  404 Media
  4. Hydrogen atmospheres could keep exomoons habitable for billions of years  AOL.com
  5. Are Rogue Exomoons the Newest Frontier in the Search for Habitability?  Universe Today

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