ESO 22/07 - Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone
It's bigger and more massive than Earth, and around a pretty cool star, so I wouldn't call it a likely place for life as we know it...but it's possible and promising. We are going to find other habitable worlds and we may be able to determine if they have life in the next decade or two. Things like an oxygen atmosphere, and there are some interesting ideas of how to make that determination, would be a dead giveaway for life. It's pretty exciting.
Posted by Mike at April 24, 2007 10:29 PM