Former Astronaut Names Planet He Thinks Most Likely To Have Life - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Chris Hadfield points to Kepler-442b as Earth-like but some researchers defend the possibility of life even on tidally locked planets, in “edge” zones.

Former astronaut Chris Hadfield, with nearly 5000 known exoplanets to choose from, names Kepler-442b, 1200 light years from Earth, as an excellent one for the James Webb Space Telescope to have a loo… [+2916 chars]

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