Mach
May 5 2017, 10:03 am ET
Search for Extraterrestrial Life Gets Help From Powerful New Tools
by Sheyna Gifford, Astrobiology Magazine
It was a good week for astrobiology. Within days of NASA's announcement that the necessary ingredients for life likely exist in the Saturn moon Enceladus' subsurface ocean, scientists gathered at Stanford University to discuss discovering life outside the solar system.
Noting how "the search for life in the universe has been transformed from speculation to a data-driven science," speakers like Stanford physicist Peter Michelson offered detailed plans for finding life on exoplanets.
http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/space/search-extraterrestrial-life-gets-help-powerful-new-tools-n755396
