{"id":177930,"date":"2023-12-09T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/astronomers-calculate-which-exoplanets-are-most-likely-to-have-water"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:25:07","slug":"astronomers-calculate-which-exoplanets-are-most-likely-to-have-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/astronomers-calculate-which-exoplanets-are-most-likely-to-have-water","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers calculate which exoplanets are most likely to have water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-calculate-which-exoplanets-are-most-likely-to-have-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers know of about 60 rocky exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. When they try to determine how habitable these planets might be, detecting water in their atmospheres plays a huge role. But what if there was another way of measuring the water content in these worlds?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are developing a way of modeling these worlds to determine how much water they have.<\/p>\n<p>Habitability likely requires <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface+water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface water<\/a>, as far as we can tell. But detecting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a> water is next to impossible. The next best thing is to use the tools we have\u2014like the James Webb Space Telescope\u2014to detect and characterize exoplanet atmospheres. But despite the JWST\u2019s power, it can\u2019t examine every exoplanet atmosphere. Some are beyond its reach. But one team of researchers is using what we do know about exoplanets, tidal heating, and radiogenic heating to try to determine which exoplanets might have oceans, either on the surface or under the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers know of about 60 rocky exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. When they try to determine how habitable these planets might be, detecting water in their atmospheres plays a huge role. But what if there was another way of measuring the water content in these worlds? Researchers are developing a way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}