{"id":294620,"date":"2017-03-30T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=299c5494e0ac4286225825dab85e9a1d"},"modified":"2017-03-30T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:17:10","slug":"inventing-tools-for-detecting-life-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=294620","title":{"rendered":"Inventing tools for detecting life elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the &#8220;habitable zone,&#8221; the region around a star where liquid water is most\u00a0likely to exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Other potentially habitable worlds have also been discovered in recent years, leaving many people wondering: How do we find out if these planets actually host life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the &#8220;habitable zone,&#8221; the region around a star where liquid water is most&nbsp;likely to exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Other potentially habitable worlds have also been discovered in recent years, leaving many people wondering: How do we find out if these planets actually host life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294621,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294620\/revisions\/294621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}