What planet outside of our solar system has the highest probability of life?

Question

I've heard that Japan will launch a laser satellite that will detect life on exoplanets. I think its in 2010, but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

check this out. it is the nearest. although there are other 24 "possible" earth-like planets, but too far away

Answer 2

One of the many that have not been detected, yet. None of the planets we have seen so far has a particularly good chance to harbor life AS WE KNOW IT. That does not mean some of them might not have life. It only means we know pretty close to zip about what life might look like on other planets.

And no, there will be no Japanese satellite detecting life. There won't be any satellite soon detecting life. Sorry, whatever you have heard does not fall into this category.

Answer 3

It is true that Japan is making great strides in the study and possible future exploration of outer space. The new satellite they will launch, however, does not have any real chance of detecting life on distant planets because the closest possible one is more than four and one half Light Years from Earth. Most other possibles are between ten and 100 Light Years away. That means that any satellite probe launched to visit those solar systems would take almost 1000 years to reach them...to long for me to wait...

Also, if you think about it...What exactly do you mean by "LIFE?" I mean are you including fish, birds, insects, and mammals such as bears and foxes?

I assume that you do include those things in your question about LIFE on some other planet. Now, if you do mean to include them in the word "life", could you propose how a satellite traveling 150 Miles up in the atmosphere of a distant earthlike planet could determine if there were fish in the ocean, insects on the ground, or bears in the woods? Hmm-m-m-m...not so easy, right? It is even harder to do with a telescope from Earth, or using the Space Telescopes orbiting the Earth. So, to bring the subject to a head, yes, there is most likely "LIFE" on some distant planets. Which ones? We don't know yet. See:

www.exoplanets.org

Are there human beings like us on some distant planet?
Probably not.

They certainly don't have Sony Walkman's or Apple IPods, and the chances that they have 13 Chanels of VHF TV, and about 80 channels of UHF TV are rather slim. I would not count on them having AM/FM Radios either.

The Earth is some 5 to 10 Billion years old. Of that entire time period, Man has only been around for some 10,000 years and of those, only the last 100 years have been witness to huge advances in radio communications (out into space), terrestrial and space based photography and study of the Universe, and gigantic leaps in transportation capabilities to include short space travel to the Moon and probes to other planets.

So that is about 100 years in relation to 5 Billion years of Earth's existance. What is that 100/5,000,000,000 =
1/50,000,000 th of the total existance of the Earth.

So how, exactly, would one predict the proper time to look at an Earthlike planet in some distant solar system and hope to catch that planet in just the right smidgen of time when some intelligence sprang forth and developed far enough to be able to communicate intelligently with other species? That is the real problem. It is quite possible that in the realm of some distant planet, man (or man's equivalent) has come and gone, wiped out by some huge volcanic activity, internal warfare, or some widespread disease. The opposite situational possibility also exists, which is that intelligence has not developed on that planet yet, and what they have is simple birds and fish like things living there. The range of possibilities is quite broad, you see.

Regards,
Zah

Answer 4

Many planets have a small possibility of harboring life, but most of them are Saturn-sized meaning they aren't good candidates. But, there was been a discovery of a planet near a red dwarf just inside at the suitable life zone, so that planet was the greatest chance of life.

Answer 5

Right now the planets that are being detected are weird gas giants in strange orbits because that is required by how the detection method works. I don't think any of them are good candidates.

Answer 6

Super-earth,a planet discovered recently has yhe probablity of life. It is said that this planet has a temperature of arond 40
degree C;which is suitable for the existence of life.Super-earth revolves around a star outside our solar system.

Answer 7

Would finding life on another planet be a victory for Darwinism and proponents of naturalistic evolution as the sole force behind life as we know it? Quite the contrary! Given the extremely small probability of finding another habitable planet in our universe, multiplied by the equally small probability of life generating spontaneously on a habitable planet, finding life on another planet would have to be considered a miracle.
In other words, finding even the simplest life forms on another planet would greatly increase the scientific evidence for intelligent design. Only a transcendent intelligent designer would be able to overcome those long odds to create life in multiple places in the universe. The theological implications of such a discovery would depend upon the nature of the life forms and will be left for future ponderings.
Bottom Line

Answer 8

Euopa is not outside our solar system. If life elsewhere does exist it is outside our solar system

Answer 9

yup, guess there really ARE people that believe in 'intelligent design'

oh, well.

i thought it was just a joke.

i mean, yeah, it IS a joke, but... oh, well.

really, its gonna take quite an increase in the detection system before we can narrow down candidates. any advance in tech (not by the military) has gotta benefit us.

Answer 10

The only one we've found so far is known as Gliese 581c (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_page_id=1965&in_article_id=450467)