Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened
If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth.
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Alien life on most exoplanets likely dies young
Astronomers have found a plethora of planets around nearby stars. And it appears that Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are probably common.
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Combined climate, orbit models show that Kepler-62f could sustain life
A distant planet known as Kepler-62f could be habitable, a team of astronomers reports.
Astronomy
May 27, 2016
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Number of habitable planets could be limited by stifling atmospheres
New research has revealed that fewer than predicted planets may be capable of harbouring life because their atmospheres keep them too hot.
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May 26, 2016
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Friendly giants have cozy habitable zones too
It is a well-known fact that all stars have a lifespan. This begins with their formation, then continues through their main sequence phase (which constitutes the majority of their life) before ending in death. In most cases, ...
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Researchers pioneer new calibration strategies for detecting 'habitable' planets outside the solar system
EU researchers have pioneered new calibration strategies for detecting "habitable" planets outside our solar system – with impressive results already.
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Mysterious happenings around the star KIC 846852
The Kepler satellite was designed to search for Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of stars by measuring dips in a star's brightness as orbiting planets move across the stellar disc (transits). Its sensitive camera ...
Astronomy
May 16, 2016
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Hunting for hidden life on worlds orbiting old, red stars
All throughout the universe, there are stars in varying phases and ages. The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests ...
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May 16, 2016
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More than 1,000 new exoplanets discovered – but still no Earth twin
NASA astronomers working with data from the Kepler space observatory have presented the largest single crop of newly discovered exoplanets to date. It's impressive – 1,284 new planets have been announced, including around ...
Astronomy
May 12, 2016
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Are we alone? Setting some limits to our uniqueness
Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question—summed up in the famous Drake equation—has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science.
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