The search for extraterrestrial life in the water worlds close to home
- Written by Andrew Martin, Sea ice microbial physiologist, University of Tasmania
A likely candidate for life: Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe discovery of seven exoplanets around a star 40 light years from our Sun has raised the possibility that they could harbour life.
Why? Because the astronomers who made the discovery believe some of the planets may have liquid water. And on Earth,...







