• Question: is there a planet that can hold life in except for earth

    Asked by victor to Monique on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by IDONTKNOW WHATTOTYPEHERE.
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      Monique Henson answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Probably! There are so many stars in the Universe, and lots of those stars have planets around them. This means there are billions of planets out there, and it’s quite likely that some of them are habitable – that means that life can live there.

      Our ideas about what kinds of places are habitable (life can life there) are changing all the time. Not that long ago, people thought that life couldn’t survive under intense pressure at the bottom of the ocean – but then people found life there. It’s possible that if we do find life on other planets, it might be living somewhere that we never thought life could survive.

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