> Johnson said these planets are not likely to support life. "They would probably be extremely cold, because they have no star," he said. (Other research missio

> Johnson said these planets are not likely to support life. "They would probably be extremely cold, because they have no star," he said. (Other research missions involving Ohio State astronomers will search for exoplanets that could host life.) This depends on the nature of the planet. Some planets with internal heat sources like Earth or Jupiter wouldn't be frozen. They wouldn't have liquid water on their surface, but they might have warm and habitable conditions somewhere in the planet for certain definitions of "habitable". Passages in the Void is a set of stories from Kuro5hin where I first read about rogue planets sustaining life: http://localroger.com/ http://localroger.com/ They were written by the same author as Metamorphosis of the Prime Intellect and are interesting sci-fi.