Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 09:40
in Astronomy & Space
In the search for life beyond Earth, astronomers look for planets in a star’s “habitable zone” — sometimes nicknamed the “Goldilocks zone” — where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface to nurture life as we know it. An emerging idea, bolstered by a three-decade-long set of stellar surveys, […]