Are there other earths in the universe

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Pyle shows NASA has decided on October 30, to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2, planet discoveries from outside our solar system, many of which could be promising places for life.

This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. More From Forbes. But unless we get lucky, the search for signs of life could take decades. Discovering another blue-white marble hidden in the star field, like a sand grain on the beach, will probably require an even larger imaging telescope.

Designs are already underway for that next-generation planet finder, to be sent aloft in the s or s. MIT physics professor Sara Seager looks for possible chemical combinations that could signal the presence of alien life. She and her biochemistry colleagues first focused on the six main elements associated with life on Earth: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur and hydrogen. To find out how about the advanced, space-based telescope technology being developed at NASA to search for life among the stars, read Inventing the Future.

Are we really alone? Life in the Universe: What are the Odds? It is used by astronomers to estimate how many technological civilisations might exist in the galaxy — and that we might be able to contact by radio or other means some cosmic day. The search for even a single slime mould on some alien rock would revolutionise biology , and it is a worthy agenda for the next half-century as humans continue the climb out of ourselves and into the universe in the endless quest to end our cosmic loneliness.

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