Exoplanet hunting efforts have revealed the prevalence of exotic worlds with diverse
properties, including Earth-sized bodies, which has fueled our endeavor to search for life …

The habitable zone (HZ) is the circular region around a star (s) where standing bodies of
water could exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Space missions employ the HZ to select …

Earth has had oceans for nearly four billion years and Mars had lakes and rivers 3.5–3.8
billion years ago. However, it is still unknown whether water has ever condensed on the …

A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

We investigate the atmospheric dynamics of terrestrial planets in synchronous rotation within
the habitable zone of low-mass stars using the Community Atmosphere Model. The surface …

Abstract The nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b will be a prime future target for
characterization, despite questions about its retention of water. Climate models with static …

Recent studies have shown that ocean dynamics can have a significant warming effect on
the permanent night sides of 1: 1 tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets with Earth-like …

The search for water-rich Earth-sized exoplanets around low-mass stars is rapidly gaining
attention because they represent the best opportunity to characterize habitable planets in …

Planets residing in circumstellar habitable zones offer us the best opportunities to test
hypotheses of life's potential pervasiveness and complexity. Constraining the precise …

We present a large ensemble of simulations of an Earth-like world with increasing insolation
and rotation rate. Unlike previous work utilizing idealized aquaplanet configurations, we …