{"id":3922004,"date":"2025-09-18T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/simulations-of-exoplanet-formation-may-help-inform-search-for-extraterrestrial-life\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:04:19","slug":"simulations-of-exoplanet-formation-may-help-inform-search-for-extraterrestrial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/simulations-of-exoplanet-formation-may-help-inform-search-for-extraterrestrial-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulations of exoplanet formation may help inform search for extraterrestrial life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA&#8217;s search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the most widely studied exoplanetary systems in the galaxy. It has captured scientists&#8217; attention for its potential to host water, and thus possibly life, on its planets. Now, he&#8217;s offering an explanation for why telescopes have yet to find definitive signs of either.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-simulations-exoplanet-formation-extraterrestrial-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA&#8217;s search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the most widely studied exoplanetary systems in the galaxy. It has captured scientists&#8217; attention for its potential to host water, and thus possibly life, on its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}