Rethinking the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Scientists Urge Broader Search as Exoplanet Discoveries Multiply

Worldwide Team of Citizen Scientists Help Confirm a Tricky Exoplanet

Distant exoplanets can be dodgy to spot even in the best of observations. Despite the challenges, a team of astronomers just reported the discovery of a gas giant exoplanet that lies about 400 light-years from Earth. It's called TOI-4465 b and it takes 12 hours to transit across the face of its star during its 102-day orbit.

Rethinking the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Scientists Urge Broader Search as Exoplanet Discoveries Multiply

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Earth's Extremophiles and the Search for Life Beyond - New Space Economy

The perception of what constitutes a "normal" environment for life is fundamentally shaped by a human perspective. We are creatures of temperate climates, moderate pressures, and a very specific atmospheric chemistry. Yet, scattered across our own planet, in niches that would be instantly lethal to us, life not only endures but flourishes. These realms of crushing pressure, boiling heat, freezing cold, caustic acidity, and intense radiation are …