article_snippet.sent: The Nexss team, includes those who study Earth as a life-bearing planet (lower right), those researching the diversity of solar system planets (left), and those on the new frontier, discovering worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy (upper right)
article_snippet.sent: The initiative, dubbed Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (Nexss), will include scientists from 10 universities including Stanford, the University of California and Yale.
article_snippet.sent: By applying a 'system science' approach, the team hopes to understand an alien planet's biology interacts with the atmosphere, geology, oceans, and interior of a planet.
article_snippet.sent: Alien hunters from the University of Berkeley, California and Stanford are tasked with answering the question: 'What are the properties of exoplanetary systems, as Alien hunters from the University of Berkeley, California and Stanford relate to Alien hunters from the University of Berkeley, California and Stanford formation, evolution, and potential to harbour life?'
article_snippet.sent: Alien hunters from the University of Berkeley, California and Stanford will combine astronomical observations of exoplanets and forming planetary systems with powerful computer simulations and cutting-edge microscopic studies of meteorites.
article_snippet.sent: The team from Arizona State University in Phoenix will take a similar approach.
article_snippet.sent: The team from Arizona State University in Phoenix will place planetary habitability in a chemical context, with the goal of producing a 'periodic table of planets.'
article_snippet.sent: Researchers from Arizona State University in Phoenix, Virginia, will be exploring the sources and sinks for volatiles on habitable worlds. 
article_snippet.sent: The team from Arizona State University in Phoenix will help determine the past and present habitability of Mars and even Venus.
article_snippet.sent: The team from Arizona State University in Phoenix centered at Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies will investigate habitability on a more local scale.
article_snippet.sent: The team from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,  will design new spectrometers - optical instruments that measure the spectrum of light - with the stability to reach Earth-detecting precision for nearby stars.
article_snippet.sent: A group led the University of Nebraska-Kearney will explore the existence and evolution of exospheres around exoplanets, the outer, 'unbound' portion of a planet's atmosphere.
article_snippet.sent: From the University of Nebraska-Kearney, Santa Cruz, a group will investigate how novel maths equations can be used to extract information from light that is emitted and reflected by planetary atmospheres. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Alien search team, dubbed Nexss, includes scientists from 10 universities .
  