Sentences with phrase «detect signatures of life»

The proposed telescope will be able to detect signatures of life on planets outside our own Solar System, and begin to address the issue of whether life is ubiquitous.»

Sagan and his colleagues used that to test a key question: Whether spacecraft could detect signatures of life from afar.

Both next - gen telescopes will help us get to know exoplanets even better, perhaps even detecting the signatures of life — if it exists.

Not exact matches

I'm confident that we'll detect signs of life on exoplanets (planets around other stars) by observing the atmospheres of the planets that we're detecting now — especially those similar to Earth in mass and orbit — and finding oxygen and other chemical signatures there.

«It's all about detecting specific signatures of how people behave, in any kind of aspect of their life, whether it's tweeting, commenting, or moving around,» says Grauwin, who is working in the Senseable City Lab via a fellowship with the technology firm Ericsson.

In fact, none of the atmospheric signatures we think we could detect in exoplanets would allow us to conclude that we found life unless we have a pretty good understanding of the planet.