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Impey, Chris, author.

Worlds without end : exoplanets, habitability, and the future of humanity / Chris Impey.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

©2023.

376 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

"WORLDS WITHOUT END: EXOPLANETS, HABITABILITY, AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY will present the scientific missions exploring exoplanets through the lens of habitability and our survival in the universe"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Searching for distant worlds -- The visionaries -- Doppler wobble -- Chasing shadows -- Seeing is believing -- Calling Pandora -- The next wave -- Milky Way census -- Habitability and the exoplanet zoo -- Gas giants -- Ice giants -- Water worlds -- Earth clones -- Exomoons -- Rogue planets -- The search for life beyond Earth -- The solar system -- Sniffing biosignatures -- Send in the nanobots -- ET phone home -- Energy footprints -- The Drake equation -- Fermi's question -- The promise of space exploration -- Habitable Earth -- Space boom -- How to get to space -- Going to the moon and Mars -- Mining asteroids -- Living beyond Earth.

Extrasolar planets.

Habitable planets.

Outer space -- Exploration.

9780262047661 (hardcover)

0262047667

2005031