Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)
Astronomers have found more than 300 alien (extrasolar) worlds so far. Most of these are gas giants like Jupiter, and are either too hot (too close to their star) or too cold (too far away) to support life as we know it. Sometime in the near future, however, astronomers will probably find one that's just right - a planet with a solid surface that's the right distance for a temperature that allows liquid water -- an essential ingredient in the recipe for life. But the first picture of this world will be just a speck of light. How can we find out if it might have liquid water on its surface? If it has lots of water - oceans - we are in luck. read more
Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, ...
Tue 26 May 09 from PhysOrg
Search is On for the Light of Life
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Thu 28 May 09 from Livescience
Search is On for the Light of Life, Thu 28 May 09 from SPACE.com
NASA’s Deep Impact gives clues how to discover water on distant planets
NASA’s search for extrasolar, earth-like planets is one of the most fascinating scientific projects of our time. 300 “alien worlds” have been found so far, but it remains difficult to determine ...
Tue 26 May 09 from TG Daily
Study looks for Earth-like water worlds
GREENBELT, Md., May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency-sponsored scientists say they have developed a technique for determining whether Earth-like extrasolar worlds have oceans.
Thu 28 May 09 from UPI
Looking for the Light of Life
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Thu 28 May 09 from Astrobiology Magazine
Looking For The Light Of Life, Fri 29 May 09 from SpaceDaily
Mapping the Pale Blue Dot
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Wed 27 May 09 from Astrobiology Magazine
EPOXI And The Hunt For Alien Oceans
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Tue 26 May 09 from Scientific Blogging
The Next Moon Missions
NASA will launch two new satellites to the moon this June, returning a wealth of new information on our nearest celestial neighbor. The LRO and LCROSS missions will return data essential in ...
Tue 26 May 09 from Astrobiology Magazine
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