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  • 7/15/2025
When planets are too close to the star they orbit, something absolutely life ending happens: the star siphons all of the planet’s resources away from it, including all of its water.

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00:00When planets are too close to the star they orbit, something absolutely life-ending happens.
00:09The star siphons all of the planet's resources away from it, including all of its water.
00:14But now experts at the University of Cambridge in the UK say maybe planets might have a way
00:18of preventing that from happening. They've now outlined a way in which planets might still
00:22harbor life, even if they're too close to a star, by hiding all of their water underground.
00:26It's not an absolutely outlandish idea by any stretch. After all, Earth has billions
00:30of gallons of water hidden under the surface in aquifers. But this will add a more complicated
00:35method of searching for planets with possible life, as underground water will no doubt be
00:39more difficult to detect, with the researchers writing, quote,
00:42The model gives us an upper limit on how much water a planet could carry at depth, based
00:46on these minerals and their ability to take water into their structure. This would give
00:50us a lot of insight not only into our own planet's birth and eventual demise, but also answer
00:54a lot of questions we have about Venus. Venus is a lot like Earth, it just happens to have
00:58been born too close to the Sun. But if this new model is true, it could mean Venus had a wild
01:02and possibly wet history, with the researchers adding, quote, If that happened, Venus must have
01:07found a way to cool itself and regain surface water after being born around a fiery Sun.

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