How common are habitable planets?

Jack J. Lissauer ()
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Jack J. Lissauer: NASA Ames Research Center

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6761, C11-C14

Abstract: The Earth is teeming with life, which occupies a diverse array of environments; other bodies in our Solar System offer fewer, if any, niches that are habitable by life as we know it. Nonetheless, astronomical studies suggest that many habitable planets may be present within our Galaxy.

Date: 1999
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