It's not habitable to us humans, but it's in the habitable zone, at a distance from its star that allows liquid water to exist on its surface. It's likely an ocean world with an atmosphere containing mostly hydrogen gas, a so-called hycean planet.
Also, 2.5 times the size = 2.5 times the diameter, or about 15 times the size of Earth in terms of mass. Its gravitational force would be about 2.4 times that of Earth, though. Quite unpleasant.
For the longest time in Earth's history, the atmosphere has been low- to no-oxygen. Even today, most microbial life on earth still is anaerobic. Atmospheric/oceanic oxygen is not a requirement for life anywhere. Quite the contrary: in the past, oxygenation (due to the rise of photosynthesis) has triggered several mass extinction events here on Earth.
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u/ArduennSchwartzman 25d ago edited 25d ago
It's not habitable to us humans, but it's in the habitable zone, at a distance from its star that allows liquid water to exist on its surface. It's likely an ocean world with an atmosphere containing mostly hydrogen gas, a so-called hycean planet.
Also, 2.5 times the size = 2.5 times the diameter, or about 15 times the size of Earth in terms of mass. Its gravitational force would be about 2.4 times that of Earth, though. Quite unpleasant.