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Planets, planets everywhere and on some there will be drops to drink. An interesting confluence of research occurred over the last few months, leading to: "A revised estimate of the occurrence rate of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones around Kepler M-dwarfs" by Ravi kumar Kopparapu PSU (arXiv), ApJLetters in press Bottom line: about half of low mass stars in the Solar neighbourhood are estimated to have earth size planets in their habitable zone!

With more than 5,000 known exoplanets, astronomers are shifting their focus from discovering additional distant worlds to identifying which are good candidates for further study.

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-mass exoplanet in the so-called "habitable zone." Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) have discovered an Earth-mass exoplanet in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Wolf 1069, according to the institute's press release on Friday, Feb.

At 40 light years away from Earth, TRAPPIST-1's four Goldilocks zone planets are one of the prime candidates for finding extra-terrestrial life.