Huge Space Telescope Needed to Search for Life on Alien Planets

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 06:30 in Astronomy & Space

While NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be capable of finding signs of life on nearby exoplanets after its 2018 launch, a bona fide hunt for aliens beyond Earth's neighborhood will require even bigger instruments, experts say.

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