To make sure Kepler's truely found a planet, scientists are using one of the largest earth-based telescopes for conformation. This telescope will also determine the planet's mass and distance from its star. Scientists are most interested in the small...
Because from trillions of miles away, these small planets get lost in the blinding glare of their stars brightness. The sad truth of the matter is that earth-like planets are near cosmic specks of dust. And therefore detecting them is really quite ha...
Water allows the sand grains to flow to gather and intermingle and form more complex structures. In the same way, water acts like a cocktail mixer, allowing the atoms and molecules to come together, and also may form the building blocks of life. All...
Those planets are all going to be so hot, and you cant develop something as complex as life. Scientists have gone back to the drawing board, looking to find worlds capable of supporting life, small rocky planets like earth. We dont know that life has...
Are we alone ?And it ties into all the big questions: how do we get here ? where are we going ?Are we a part of a bigger picture? But for the longest time ,the question was taboo to science . Before the Mid-1990s ,it was considered somewhat embarassi...
For thousands of years, weve wondered if we are alone in the cosmos. Life, is it a one-time event, or its something that's occurred lots of times throughout the universe.? And at this very moment, new discoveries are bringing us closer to the answers...