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We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.
I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it... →
It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically... →
We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with... →
In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and... →
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The... →
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby... →
Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve.... →
People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have... →
The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we... →
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