"Gas giants, terrestrial planets, and now superfluid worlds...intelligent alien life would most certainly be completely different then us. This is why it's proving so difficult for us to detect them. They're so radically different from us not only from a...
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Chinese astronomers, actively searching for Earth-like planets using survey instruments in Antarctica, believe efforts to seek an extra-solar planet that that harbors life will soon be rewarded. "It's highly possible that human bein... Read Post
"GJ1214b is like no planet we know of. A huge fraction of its mass is made up of water." Zachory Berta, astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Our solar system contains three types of planets: rocky, terrest... Read Post
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a planet orbiting two stars, something like Tatooine in Star Wars. However, unlike Tatooine, this planet is a gas giant about the size and mass of Saturn. But if you had a place to stand near the... Read Post