Yale joins new NASA team searching for life outside the solar system
![Artist's conception of Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone. Artist's conception of Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone.](https://astronomy.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/main-kepler.jpg?itok=V5IlKA95)
Thu, 04/23/2015
NASA has enlisted Professor Debra Fischer and her research group for the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), a national collaboration of scientists that seeks a new approach for discovering life on extrasolar planets. See full article, below, for more information.