• Hang On To Your Water, Super-Earths! • byEvan Nelles Henderson| Feb 17, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|1 comment Title:Water Evolution and Inventories of Super-Earths Orbiting Late M Dwarfs Authors:Keavin Moore, Benjamin David, Albert Yian Zhang, and Nicolas B. • Cowan First Author’s Institution:Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, Canada Status:Published in The Astrophysical Journal [openaccess] We use bottles, and sometimes a Brita, but how do planets store their water? • The authors of today’s paper made a model to find out, and to evaluate whether certain planets are good at hanging on to their water or not. • Water can be stored in planets within a few different reservoirs. • Some of these may be familiar to you, such as in oceans or in the atmosphere as steam.

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  • Title: Water Evolution and Inventories of Super-Earths Orbiting Late M Dwarfs Authors: Keavin Moore, Benjamin David, Albert Yian Zhang, and Nicolas B. Cowan First Author’s Institution: Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, Canada Status: Published in The Astrophysical Journal [open access] We use bottles, and sometimes a Brita, but how do planets store their water? The authors of today’s paper made a model to find out, and to evaluate whether certain planets are good at hanging on to their water or not. Water can be stored in planets within a few different rese

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