Dense Star Fields Might Be Home To Extraterrestrial Life - Astronomers searching for noisy extraterrestrials might try looking in a most unexpected place: dense conglomerates of stars that appear to be largely empty of planets. “Globular clusters may indeed contain...
New Gravity Measurement Technique For Distant Stars Could Help Find Extraterrestrial Life - My eighth grade science teacher had a great idea for a weight loss program: just send people to the moon. Gravitational pull is different on every planet, moon and star. On the...
Direct Imaging: The Next Big Step in the Hunt for Exoplanets - The hunt for planets around other stars is gaining speed. NASA's Kepler Space Telescope revealed more than 4,600 planetary candidates over its brief lifetime. But what does the future hold for exoplanets?...
Looking for ET? Try a Globular Cluster - Old, dense and isolated clusters of stars might be the perfect place to find intelligent life beyond Earth, say scientists who presented a study about how so-called “globular clusters” may be a cradle of life for advanced...
Scientist Douglas Vakoch on SETI’s Search for Alien Life - In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler spacecraft to search for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars in the Orion spiral arm of our galaxy. Of the thousands of stars observed by the spacecraft, an anomaly around the...
Rocky Planet Found Around Star with Least Metal Yet - How low can you go? Astronomers have found a star with an incredibly low concentration of heavy elements that still has a sizable planet around it — the most metal-poor star ever discovered with an orbiting, rocky...
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