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LIFE at ETH Latsis Symposium “The Origin and Prevalence of Life”
August 31, 2022
"What is life? Where, when and how did life arise on Earth? What ingredients were likely present and how were they delivered to Earth? Under what conditions is life possible and is life likely to exist on other planets or celestial…
Paper IV of the LIFE paper series accepted for publication
June 16, 2022
Hansen et al. revisits the studies of configurations and architectures that were taken in the days of Darwin/TPF-I.
Paper V of the LIFE paper series accepted for publication
June 14, 2022
In Alei et al. 2022, the fifth paper of the LIFE series (link to arXiv) we explore the potential of LIFE for characterizing emission spectra of Earth at various stages of its evolution. Assuming a distance of 10 pc and a Sun-like host…
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A telescope fleet designed to study nearby worlds
[Astronomy] LIFE would use multiple satellites flying in formation to separate the faint thermal glow of rocky planets from the overwhelming light of their host stars.