by Aldo Panfichi | Aug 19, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Signs of life on other worlds might be detectable with today’s instruments – but can JWST detect the signs of conditions where life could form? Today’s authors try to answer this question.
by Junellie Gonzalez Quiles | May 1, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Is there more to life than oxygen? Today’s authors look into what other molecules could be observed with extremely large ground-based telescopes in the search for life on exoplanets!
by Isabella Trierweiler | Mar 4, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s authors have a new idea for identifying biosignatures!
by Katya Gozman | Mar 31, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
Looking for aliens? Searching for signs of technology might prove just as fruitful as searching for signs of life!
by Macy Huston | Mar 21, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
Which exoplanets are the most worthwhile to search for life on? Today’s paper explores the “continuous habitable zone” as an important criterion for atmospheric characterization target selection.
by Yoni Brande | Jan 31, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
In order to find life elsewhere in the universe, we need to rule out false positive biosignatures. To get around this, today’s authors use polarized light to distinguish plants from rocks!