Is there any other planet that can sustain life?

Question

I know mars has the ability to sustain some plants life.But is there any other planet or dwarf planet that can sustain life?

can ceres sustain life?Please answer.

Answer 1

  There are likely no planets in the solar system that can support life,but there are billions in all parts of the universe.

  Mars has chemicals that could be utilized to support plants but that is a long way from supporting life.

Answer 2

Mars might be able to sustain bacteria if there are any subsurface areas with a hot spot and access to some water.   Not plant life on the surface.  Its hard to say about those moons that may have oceans under a mile thick layer of ice.  Maybe they have black smokers like those found on the mid oceanic ridges.  

Elsewhere who knows?  There's probably an awful lot of bacteria in the Galaxy.  Advanced life is probably very rare.  It took over 3 billion years to develop on earth and really didn't get going until the cambrian explosion.  

Answer 3

No there isn't either it doesn't have water or it too hot too cold and too dry.

P.S. They don't say dwarf planets anymore they are called Plutoids now

Answer 4

No planets yet discovered seem to have the ability to sustain life as we know it. But, that doesn't rule out the possibility of life as we DON'T know it. For example, Europa (not a planet, but rather a moon of Jupiter) is thought by some to have an ocean of liquid water beneath the ice on its surface...

Answer 5

None discovered so far.

Given the specifics of our Star 'Sun' there seems to be no other place other than Earth that provides the very narrow range of temparature, atmosphere and its thickness as well as constitution, water abundance and constitution of Earth's constituents and its rotation time.

Answer 6

No planet in our solar system can sustain life as we know it.  There's a possibility of oceans existing a few of the moons of the gas giants, which *could* have developed life, but so far, we have no evidence of it.  

Answer 7

It is possible that life could be elsewhere in the universe.

Ceres is an asteroid, but it has a thin coating of water in many places on it and every where we have found water on earth we find life.

Mars has signs of water, but we haven't found any signs or organic action; however if you were to plant earth plants in Martian soil and keep it watered it would grow normally.

Jupiter's moon Europa is covered in ice, scientists think it is kilometers thick and there could be life underneath it; currently this is the best candidate for extraterrestrial life in the solar system.  The possible life forms would be shielded from the intense radiation captured by Jupiter’s magnetic field, there would be a molten core to provide internal heat so life can exist.

Titan (Saturn’s moon and the largest moon in the solar system) has been found to have lakes of ethane and methane as well as some other hydrocarbons; and carbon based life is based on burning the hydrogen from carbon compounds.  The chances of life there are pretty slim though because it is too cold.  From that distance the sun looks just like a slightly bright star.

Venus is a volcanic h**l, Mercury is as baked and frozen as our moon and the other major planets are gas giants with no solid surface.  The Pluto class planets may have water, but it would all be locked up in frozen ice.

We have found life in the deserts of the bottom of the deepest oceans near volcanic vents and there is a thin crust of algae that grows just under the ice in Antarctica.   So life is pretty common, tough and it seems to be a natural consequence.

We have even found the fundamental building blocks of life like compounds that can form proteins and amino acids on asteroids along with water ice.  One theory is that the earth may have been seeded for life from the asteroids.  If that is true then every moon and planet has had a chance to develop life.

Life could be unique to the earth, and the chances of it being on Mars are slim to none.  The chances of it being on Europa are pretty thin, but somewhere there has to exist other earth like worlds where life could have evolved.  The more we study the universe the more we find that earth is just a normal unexceptional member, one of a huge number of possible planets.

However, the issue is more complex; one theory states that life is possible on Earth because Jupiter sucks in most of the asteroids and cometary debris that would otherwise make living here like living in a shooting gallery.  Our moon has caused some of the heavier metals to rise to the surface and that could have been key to the formation of life as well and in a nod to the religious crowd God could have only made life on earth.  We don’t know the only way we are going to find out is to go there; that is what makes the Phoenix probe and its cousins so important.  Already it has established that astronauts could grow their own food in greenhouses using Martian soil.  The important question of water seems to be very likely; making a Manned Martian Mission much more likely.

Probes are good, and cheaper than men, but a man can do in five minutes what it can take a remote probe an entire day to do, or longer.

There is a company in Austin Texas that is working on an unmanned artificially intelligent probe that could be sent to Europa, and it if can be sent through the ice then it is possible it could swim the huge ocean of Europa; an ocean possibly larger than all of Earth’s oceans.  In the deepest darkest depths of the ocean we have found life, so it could be possible. Neil Tyson, the head of New York’s Planetarium says that he wants to see that probe swimming the huge ocean and have a creature approach our probe and stare right back at us.  The possibilities are exciting, but we won’t know until we go.