In search of planets and life around other stars

AUTOR(ES)

Lunine, Jonathan I.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The discovery of over a dozen low-mass companions to nearby stars has intensified scientific and public interest in a longer term search for habitable planets like our own. However, the nature of the detected companions, and in particular whether they resemble Jupiter in properties and origin, remains undetermined.

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