26-10-2016 18:01 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Proxima b Might Be a Habitable 'Ocean Planet'

Using this information, a team led by researchers at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory in France, developed different models to help discover what the conditions might be like on the rocky exoplanet, according to a statement from NASA. The new findings suggest Proxima b could have a large liquid ocean covering its entire surface and stretching 124 miles (200 kilometers) deep, as well as a thin gas atmosphere much like that found on Earth. Scientists have proposed different ideas about Proxim
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