Rogue Exomoons: Self-Consistent Modeling of Tidal Heating in Hydrogen-Atmosphere Worlds for Long-Lived Liquid Water
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Rogue planets could host exomoons where tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres keep liquid water for up to about 4.3 billion years, and new self-consistent models imply these environments might be habitable without a central star, though liquid water alone does not guarantee life.
