Eying exomoons in the search for E.T.
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
If you're looking for life, you'd do well to look for some moons.Maxwell Hamilton, CC BYWhen I was young, the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system.
Astronomers presumed that many of the other stars in the night sky had planets too, but this was sheer speculation. We could never know for sure, the thinking went, because...