In search of habitable worlds
Exploring one of Earth's nearest stars may reveal a planetary system where the seeds of life may already be growing.
Published:
October 21, 2007
| When Frank Drake listened to Epsilon Eridani in 1960, astronomers didn't know the Sun-like star was only 800 million years old — too young for intelligent life to have evolved, assuming Earth's rate of biological evolution is typical. |
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