{"id":3925894,"date":"2026-05-11T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-model-finds-the-lower-size-limit-for-habitable-exoplanets\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:02:40","slug":"new-model-finds-the-lower-size-limit-for-habitable-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-model-finds-the-lower-size-limit-for-habitable-exoplanets\/","title":{"rendered":"New model finds the lower size limit for habitable exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there&#8217;s a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical. One variable of a planet that will have a huge impact on its habitability is its size. A new paper, now available in preprint on arXiv, by researchers at the University of California Riverside, looks into the impact of a planet&#8217;s size on one of its more critical features for habitability\u2014whether it holds onto an atmosphere\u2014and determines that slightly smaller than Earth is likely the smallest a planet can be and still be viable for life to develop.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-size-limit-habitable-exoplanets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there&#8217;s a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical. One variable of a planet that will have a huge impact on its habitability is its size. A new paper, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}