How We Could Find Alien Life Soon—and Why We Probably Won’t
by Lee Billings
May 15, 2013
4 minutes
Despite their great distance from Earthbound politics, exoplanets were the topic of a joint hearing on May 9th of the House space and research subcommittees. The recent discovery of a trio of temperate super-Earths was the hearing’s impetus, but most of the discussion was devoted to future prospects—chiefly, how and when scientists might learn whether any exoplanet actually harbors an Earth-like environment
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