... was announced, both searchers and sceptics have had their say on the possibility of Earth making contact with intelligent life. A potentially “Earth-like” planet out there, which is what Kepler 452b is alleged to be, will obviously generate a more...
... are possible. We believe that with further improvements we’ll soon be able to directly image any smaller, possibly Earth-like planets orbit in Alpha Centauri’s habitable zones,” Wagner says via Twitter. These results have been published as part...
...sextillion planetary systems (that’s 100 followed by 21 noughts!). According to the author, “Earth is estimated to be one of several billion Earth-like planets in the Galaxy orbiting within a distance from their stars at which water, if it is present...
.... The hardest question was whether this is the most Earth-like planet we’ve found to date. In many respects it is but, at about 1.6 earth radii, it’s no Earth twin. Even if it were 1.0 Earth radii, we wouldn’t know whether it has or had an ocean and...
..., the team is using telescope time to survey the Galactic Plane where stars, and hopefully orbiting Earth-like planets, cluster. SETI searches generate staggering amounts of data that have to be stored and processed and David MacMahon, ...
The most Earth-like exoplanet yet may have a lot to teach us…about ourselves. ...day existence obscure the fundamental facts of how stars and solar systems and Earth-like planets are formed. The reality of outer space is radically separated from our ...