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Successful LIFE spring/summer meeting 2022
June 9, 2022
On June 8th the LIFE team assembled for its spring/summer 2022 all-hands meeting. The initiative was able to welcome a number of new members and energize the community with exciting news about the successful LIFE paper series or the launch…
LIFE team meets with colleagues at University of Maryland, NASA Goddard and STScI
May 14, 2022
On their trip between the Exoplanets 4 and the AbSciCon conferences, researchers from the LIFE initiatives met with colleagues on the US East Coast formeetings and presentations at the University of Maryland, the NASA Goddard Space Flight…
LIFE presentations at NCCR PlanetS General Assembly
April 27, 2022
During the general assembly of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS in Grindelwald, Switzerland, LIFE team members Eleonora Alei and Björn Konrad presented their LIFE related research.
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.