{"id":73401,"date":"2017-10-20T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T02:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/nasa-improves-search-for-habitable-worlds"},"modified":"2017-10-20T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T02:02:44","slug":"nasa-improves-search-for-habitable-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/nasa-improves-search-for-habitable-worlds","title":{"rendered":"NASA Improves Search for Habitable Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-improves-search-for-habitable-worlds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New NASA research is helping to refine our understanding of candidate planets beyond our solar system that might support life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing a model that more realistically simulates atmospheric conditions, we discovered a new process that controls the habitability of exoplanets and will guide us in identifying candidates for further study,\u201d said Yuka Fujii of NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York, New York and the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, lead author of a <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/aa8955\/meta\">paper on the research<\/a> published in the Astrophysical Journal Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/exoplanet_limb_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" typeof=\"foaf: Image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-improves-search-for-habitable-worlds2.jpg\" width=\"985\" height=\"554\" alt=\"Conceptual image of an exoplanet\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2017\/nasa-improves-search-for-habitable-worlds\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2017\/nasa-improves-sear...le-worlds\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New NASA research is helping to refine our understanding of candidate planets beyond our solar system that might support life. \u201cUsing a model that more realistically simulates atmospheric conditions, we discovered a new process that controls the habitability of exoplanets and will guide us in identifying candidates for further study,\u201d said Yuka Fujii of NASA\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}