Topic: Space - on August 4, 2016 at 5:24:00 PM CEST
These are the 20 best places to search for alien life, say astronomers
Astronomers have just released a list of the 20 best candidates we have for a 'second Earth', saying that if we want to find life beyond the Solar System, these are our absolute best shots (that we know of). Whittled down from a catalogue of more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission, the ‘top 20’ were singled out as being the most likely to be rocky and habitable. "This is the complete catalogue of all of the Kepler discoveries that are in the habitable zone of their host stars," said one of the team, Stephen Kane from San Francisco State University. "That means we can focus in on the planets in this paper and perform follow-up studies to learn more about them, including if they are indeed habitable."
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