Topic: Five planets that could host life

[Simon]

It's one of the big questions: Are we alone on this blue marble or is there life elsewhere in the cosmos? To shed light on this, astronomers are searching for habitable worlds circling far-off stars.

A team has now published updated evidence for a planet that could be the most Earth-like yet. According to a project based at the US Arecibo Observatory, it would be the fifth potentially habitable world known outside our Solar System.

So what do we know about these five Earth-like planets, and how likely is it that they could support life?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19008908

[Clive]

Strange, that doesn't open either!

[Clive]

And I'm certain there are thousands more to be found.  Just wait until the Webb telescope is launched in 2018.   

[sam]

We need proper follow up.

and JWST - you'll be lucky if 2018.

[davy51]

The big question is if we can find them and find a way to get there

Where do we find the rough and tumble type of pioneers that built this world

Our society have frowned on the type for many years now

[Clive]

This is true.