Cloudy with a chance of life: How to find alien life on distant exoplanets
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
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, those aliens would likely just see the Earth and sun merged together into a single pale yellow dot.