WATER flows on Mars, at least for part of the Martian year. That makes the red planet more habitable than we had thought, but then so probably is one of Saturnâ??s moons, Enceladus, and one of Jupiterâ??s, Ganymede. They both seem to harbour vast oceans of liquid water beneath their surfaces.
News that opens up the possibility of life beyond Earth is coming in thick and fast at the moment. Much of it comes from discoveries beyond our solar system, since we have been detecting planets around distant stars since 1992. The tally at the online Extrasolar Planets Encylopaedia stands currently at about 2000.
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