Icy, Earth-like worlds may be rare | Astronomy.com
Hundreds of thousands of simulations show few possible exoplanets with climate conditions like ours.
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'Would you like little ice with your exoplanet?' For Earth-like worlds, that may be tall order
An artist’s depiction of Kepler-186f, an Earth-sized exoplanet, showing a hypothetical surface that includes partial ice coverage at the poles.NASA
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Earth Rare Among Exoplanets, Says Astronomers
Partial, Earth-like surface ice was present on only about 10% of hypothetical, habitable exoplanets
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7 rocky planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may be made of similar stuff
Artist’s depiction of the TRAPPIST-1 star and its seven worlds.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The TRAPPIST-1 star system is home to the largest batch of roughly Earth-size planets ever found outside our solar system. Discovered in 2016 some 40 light-years away, these seven rocky siblings offer a glimpse at the tremendous variety of planetary systems that likely fill the universe. A study accepted by the Planetary Science Journal shows that the planets share similar densities. That could mean they all contain roughly the same ratio of materials thought to be common to rocky planets, such as...
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