It’s you and me, Kepler−442b. What does it take for an alien exoplanet to host life as we know it? A lot, as it turns out. Suggesting that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be ...
May the faint chemical signals drifting through the atmosphere of a distant world be the long-sought message that we are not alone. Astronomers have reported seeing an unusual and strong combination ...
Finding a planet out in deep space that we could potentially live on has been a science fiction trope for decades, but little more than that. Yet with scientists discovering a growing number of ...
May the faint chemical signals drifting through the atmosphere of a distant world be the long-sought message that we are not alone. Astronomers have reported seeing an unusual and strong combination ...
THE odds of us being alone just got a lot shorter: One of three new planets found in life-supporting orbits around distant stars may be the closest ‘Earth 2.0’ yet. And one of them may potentially be ...
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How many stars like our Sun host planets like Earth? NASA’s Kepler space telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date the mission has offered ...
THE SETI project — the search for intelligent life — has pointed its ears towards a new planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The early results? Silence. The Allen radio telescope array at ...
The amazing Kepler Space Telescope has now catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets. Among them are eight new planets located within habitable zones, including two that astronomers say are the most Earth-like ...
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