It's too soon to say whether KOI 7711 truly merits the label "
Earthlike," Thompson cautioned.
"It's not clear if the planet will be
Earthlike," Anglada-Escude says.
Named EPIC212521166b - or 1166 for short - by the researchers, the freshly detected alien world has an
Earthlike mass and other similarities with our home.
It's the twenty-second century, and Citadel, an
earthlike planet located light years from the original home of humanity, is thriving.
Professor Conway Morris added that, given the growing number of
Earthlike planets now discovered by astronomers, it is surprising that we have not yet discovered aliens which look and sound like us.
The book consists of 57 chapters written by 75 eminent authors arranged into nine sections: "The Solar System," "Fundamental Planetary Processes and Properties," "The Sun," "
Earthlike Planets," "Earth and Moon as Planets," "Asteroids, Dust and Comets," "Giant Planets and their Satellites," "Beyond the Planets," and "Exploring the Solar System." The third edition contains new information including past and present space missions to terrestrial planets, research on the outer solar system, and the foundations of space telescopes.
It offers an argument against the conventional wisdom that all
Earthlike planets have naturally stable climates.
Mr Pollacco said some people were under the misapprehension an
Earthlike planet had already been discov-v ered but dismissed the storm of publicity surrounding Kepler-22b, a distant planet which was last year declared as "the new Earth" - a claim later found to have been exaggerated.
It also hopes to find
Earthlike planets warm enough to sustain life.
It's searching for
Earthlike exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, by looking for the dimming of light that occurs when a planet passes in front of a neighboring star.
The reason is simple: We have no idea what is the probability that life will emerge on an
Earthlike planet if you have one.
Perhaps in a conveniently
Earthlike planet in another galaxy he could come into his own.
In March 2009, NASA launched Kepler to search for
Earthlike planets in the Milky Way, our home galaxy.
We'll leave the calculations to the mathematicians and computers, but it would seem that given the billions upon billions of galaxies in the sky, each chock full of solar systems with potential Goldilocks planets, it's nearly certain there are other
Earthlike homesteads, gamely supporting some sort of
Earthlike life.
