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LIFE townhall 2024
November 27, 2024
The LIFE All Hands Meeting 2024 was a dynamic gathering of researchers and collaborators, focused on advancing the goals of the LIFE initiative. Over two engaging sessions (November 21-22), participants shared updates, celebrated progress,…
Grant for LIFE optical design
November 20, 2024
Floris van der Tak (SRON) & Tim Lichtenberg (U Groningen) have obtained funding for technical and system work for the optics of LIFE. The project includes a detailed optical design for LIFE, comparing various array configurations, and…
LIFE XIV paper accepted: Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood
November 1, 2024
The fourtheenth paper of the LIFE series (Cesario et al. 2024) has recently been accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this paper, we explore the potential of the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) for finding terrestrial…
LIFE in the media
Auch das Fehlen von Ausserirdischen bringt uns weiter
[SRF] Derzeit werden erstmals Teleskope entwickelt, die darauf ausgelegt sind, systematisch nach Leben auf anderen Planeten zu suchen. Dazu gehört das Teleskop LIFE, das Forschende an der ETH Zürich planen.
How rare are inhabited worlds in the universe? The LIFE space telescope fleet could find out
[space.com] Still, Angerhausen and colleagues at ETH Zurich wanted to find out how much LIFE could tell us, even if it failed to find biosignatures. The team employed a Bayesian statistical model to find the smallest number of exoplanets LIFE would need to observe.
In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too
[phys.org] It is not just about how many planets we observe; it is about asking the right questions and how confident we can be in seeing or not seeing what we are searching for.
Scientists want new mission to seek out alien life
[BBC] Astronomers from ETH Zurich want to send space telescopes to explore exoplanets even further away than Neptune, the planet furthest from the Sun.
Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
[Scientific American] Upcoming or proposed missions like NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory and ESA’s Large Interferometer For Exoplanets are meant to directly image potentially habitable worlds.
Die knifflige Suche nach außerirdischem Leben
[Deutschlandfunk] Hoffnungen ruhen bereits auf der nächsten Teleskop-Generation. Das internationale Projekt Large Interferometer for Exoplanets will eine Art Kamera für ferne Exoplaneten bauen.