Life can exist on planet fully covered with water

Edwin Kite and his colleague made a computer model of a planet composed of water and whose characteristics can be modified.

American scientists at the University of Chicago have been studying the possibility of ocean planets harboring life, reports the Astrophysical Journal. To investigate the problem, Edwin Kite and his colleague made a computer model of a planet composed of water and whose characteristics can be modified.

After analyzing the information obtained, they concluded that to shelter life, the planet did not have to be a true copy of the Earth, its oceans, and its continents.

In recent years, telescopes have discovered more than a thousand exoplanets, most of them super-terrestrial, exoplanets having a mass between that of the Earth and that of a giant planet, with an upper limit of ten times the mass of the Earth.

According to planetologists, these exoplanets in question are oceanic planets, a hypothetical variety of planet completely covered with water or other volatile compounds, of variable depth, sometimes reaching several tens of kilometers.