Season 1 · Episode 21
Audio Edition: The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’
How do planetary atmospheres form, and how are they lost? These two questions are carving out a new map of habitable alien realms.
August 28, 202517m 36s
Show Notes
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place.
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