article_snippet.sent: Nasa has put together a team of 'extraterrestrial experts' to see if any of the planets discovered outside Nasa solar system are habitable.
article_snippet.sent: The study of exoplanets is a relatively new field, and began with the discovery of the first exoplanet around a star like our sun in 1995.
article_snippet.sent: Since the launch of the Kepler space telescope six years ago, more than 1,000 exoplanets have been found, with thousands of additional candidates waiting to be confirmed.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists are also developing new ways to confirm the habitability of these worlds and search for biosignatures, or signs of life.
article_snippet.sent: The announcement comes just weeks after Nasa's top scientist predicted we could be on the verge of finding life on one of them.
article_snippet.sent: In their hunt for alien life, astronomers have so far focused on looking for Earth-like planets around smaller, cooler suns.
article_snippet.sent: But these exoplanets - despite having a chance of holding water - are believed to be locked in a rotation around these exoplanets - despite having a chance of holding water sun which causes only one side of these exoplanets - despite having a chance of holding water surface face the star.
article_snippet.sent: Now astronomers claim that such exoplanets actually rotate around astronomers stars, and spin at such a speed that astronomers exhibit a day-night cycle similar to Earth – increasing the chance of finding alien life.
article_snippet.sent: If we are correct, there is no permanent, cold night side on exoplanets causing water to remain trapped in a gigantic ice sheet,' Jérémy Leconte, a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) at the University of Toronto said. '
article_snippet.sent: Whether this new understanding of exoplanets' climate increases the ability of these planets to develop life remains an open question.'
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, The space agency's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will launch in 2018 to scope out the atmospheres of nearby 'super-Earth' alien planets.