I remember well the thunderous moment in 1992 when astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system. Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced their finding of a so-called pulsar planet, PSR B1257+12, orbiting a millisecond pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star, lying 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. All of the sudden theContinue reading “Which exoplanets could host life?”
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