habitable zone
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Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Exoplanet Spotted In The Kepler Reject Pile
For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of finding something the computers had missed—an exercise that has resulted in the discovery of what is now arguably the most Earth-like planet known to astronomers.
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One Of The Best Explanations For Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life
So far, the only examples of sentient life we’ve found are right here on our own planet. It’s not for lack of trying, though — we’ve sent out spacecraft deep into the reaches of our galaxy and, so far, still remain alone. What if the problem isn’t where where looking, though, but when?