Are we alone? The search in exoplanets for life beyond earth
Until the mid-1990s, the question of planets beyond our solar system was largely left to science fiction. Then, in 1995, Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered 51 Pegasi b, a planet orbiting a star 50 light-years away. It was a gas giant, nothing like Earth, but it opened the floodgates. Today, thanks to […]
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