In search of new Earths and life in the Universe

This was recently in the news.

Twenty years ago, in Geneva, PhD student Didier Queloz discovered a planet orbiting another sun – something that astronomers had predicted, but never found. Today he continues his terra hunting for extreme worlds and Earth twins in Cambridge.

Article: user link on phys.org

I'll keep watching this.

That's a fun article. Scientists keep finding more and more exoplanets.

While they haven't found anything quite like Earth, I'd imagine it's only a matter of time.

Given the vast scale of the universe, there are countless other "Earths" out there, just by probability alone. Finding some of them nearby is probably only a matter of time but we'll never know exactly how many there are.

Ever hear of The Drake Equation?

On Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 at 8:24 am, Jovian said:

Of course, although most the variables in that equation still require some assumptions.

Especially now since we know gravity obeys the speed of light (unless I horribly misinterpreted the recent discovery of gravity waves, please correct me if I'm wrong) I'd say the distances are way too vast for intelligent life on other planets to find each other across space.