Search for life beyond Earth suggest plantetary systems more habitable then ours!

                                         
All around the Milky Way are stars that look like our own sun. A new study is finding that any planet orbiting those stars may be hotter and more dynamic than Earth. This is because the interiors of any terrestrial plant in these systems are likely around 25% warmer then Earth. This would make them more geologically active and more likely to hold water to support life, atleat in a microbial form. These preliminary findings come from geologists and astronomers at Ohio State University who teamed up to search for alien life in a new way.
These researchers studied eight "solar twins" of our sun, stars that closely match the sun in size, age, and overall composition. This is all criteria to help measure the amounts of radioactive elements they contain. Those stars or suns came from a dataset recorded by the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher spectrometer at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. The researchers searched the solar twins for elements like thorium and uranium, which are essential to Earth's plate tectonics because they warm our planets interior. Plate tectonics helps maintain water on the surface of our Earth, so it can be said that the existence of plate tectonics on one of these solar twins could be an indicator of a planet's cabability to sustain life. Seven out of the eight stars studied so far appear to contain much more thorium than our sun. However this research is still only preliminary and more research is being conducted.
Aliens may exist after all, and Star Trek may be a posibility in the future. "Bolding going where no man has gone before." It would be rather intersting to see where this research goes, and if they will ever be able to find a solar system that has life, microbial or possibly even human.
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121203145844.htm

Alien Planet

Scientist say, as of December 5, 2011 an alien planet could host new life. Discovery News posted an article online showing the new planet's region. Scientist have named the planetKepler-22b, has been found in the "habitable zone" , where water could exist. The planet is the smallest to be found past our orbit system, but could be 2.4 times the size of earth. Scientists are still doing research to figure out if this planet can withstain life. Kepler-22b is just one of ten planets that resembles earth. To think new life can consist on a new planet, is something I dont think any one can imagine, but to see that it could be a possibilty is showing how far our technology has grown.

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-planet-found-in-habitable-zone-111205.html

NASA Finds Planet in ‘Habitable Zone’ That Could Sustain Life

This article is about the planet Kepler 22-b being able to sustain life. Kepler 22-b is 600 light years away and is very similar to Earth. The temperature on the planet is 72 degrees and has a star that is like the sun. It has a 290 day orbit around it sun like star. Kepler-22b itself is 2.4 times the radius of the Earth, making it the smallest planet ever found in a star's "habitable zone", the spot that allows an ideal temperature and climate for water to exist. Scientist still doesn't know much more but will be looking more into the planet. This planet is the first planet to be found on NASA's Kepler planer-hunting telescope.