Worlds bustling with plant life should shine in a detectable wavelength of infrared, say exoplanet scientists
Published Date: 1/18/2023
Source: phys.org
Future historians might look back on this time and call it the "exoplanet age." We've found over 5,000 exoplanets, and we'll keep finding more. Next, we'll move beyond just finding them, and we'll turn our efforts to finding biosignatures, the special chemical fingerprints that living processes imprint on exoplanet atmospheres.