Dynamics of Cats
Dynamics of Cats is a fascinating blog by Steinn Sigurðsson who is blogging from the conference on Extreme Solar Systems. There is lots of information on his blog about discovering planets on other Solar Systems. The conference has revealed that earth type planets may be much more common than originally thought. Astronomers find it easier to infer the large mega Jupiter planets, but they are finding lots of smaller planets that have an orbital period of 300 or so days.
Nearby alien life just got much more probable.
I agree earth like planets may be common place in this galaxy but I doubt they are populated with advanced civilizations like our own.
Otherwise they’d be here by now.