Discovering new Earths

Scientists are busy in their search for new, Earth-like planets outside of our Solar System and new advances in technology may help us find one soon

Planet hunting is a new and exciting area of astronomy barely two decades old that, thanks to missions such as NASA’s Kepler telescope, is revealing more and more data about intriguing new worlds outside of our Solar System, known as extrasolar planets or exoplanets. Only in the last 20 years has sufficient technology been available to allow us to categorically prove the existence of these planets. While we’re still some way off seeing detailed imagery of direct exoplanet observations, projects like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will bring Earth-size exoplanets into view and even study the composition of their atmospheres. The number of bizarre and familiar new worlds just waiting to be discovered is staggering, if estimates prove to be accurate. In our…

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