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Strong LIFE presence at ESA’s PLANET ESLAB workshop
March 27, 2023
he European Space Agency's (ESA) PLANET ESLAB workshop was an exciting conference bridging between planetary and exoplanet science and an ideal occasion to advocate for LIFE and attract more supporters. For many LIFE team members it was the first opportunity to meet in person and discuss synergies between the various fields represented in our diverse team.
Observing Venus-Twins with LIFE: paper IX available on arxiv now
March 9, 2023
In Konrad et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04727), the LIFE team studied different quality thermal emission spectra of cloudy Venus-twin exoplanet using Bayesian atmospheric retrievals. The goal of this study was to: test how the…
New LIFE paper accepted about the prospects for detecting and characterising exocomets
February 23, 2023
Comets around other stars than the Sun - exocomets - have so far only been possible to discover indirectly, when they pass in front of their parent stars as seen from Earth. In a new study accepted for publication in Astronomy &…
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.