I don't think discovery of a new planet has a huge meaning for children now, but what it means is the world they're growing up in is very different f….

Understanding different planets in their environments is still really important. So if these planets are dead lifeless worlds, it will still be usefu….

Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world..

In the old days, people thought that wouldn't be amenable to life. Modern studies with computers have shown that it's okay to be tidally locked. If a….

Sometimes, I think people just want a distraction. It's something you can get excited about that doesn't have to do with politics. It makes you think….

Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matte….

We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our res….