Cloudy with a chance of life: how to find alien life on distant exoplanets
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
The light shining through an exoplanet's atmosphere can give us a hint of whether the planet supports life.NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)How do you go about hunting for life on another planet elsewhere in our galaxy? A useful starting point is to imagine looking from afar for signs of life on Earth. In a telescope like those we have on Earth,...







