Milky Way Offers Plenty of Water Stops Along the Way for Galactic Travelers

Artist conception of planets in a habitable zone, lined up by size, with Earth positioned furthest to the right. Photo: NASA

Space travelers don’t need to pack much water for their trek within and beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. According to new findings presented on August 17, 2018 at Goldschmidt, an annual geochemistry conference held in Boston this year, thousands of planets outside of our solar system that are two-to-four times the size of Earth are water-rich.

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