Astronomers Detect First Earth-Size Planets Orbiting Another Star (The Washington Post, December 20, 2011)

Hot on Trail Of 'Just Right' Far-Off Planet (The New York Times, December 2, 2011)

The MIT Museum presents Life in the Universe: Are We Alone? (October-November, 2011)

HARPS-N Instrument Will Help Confirm Kepler's Planet Finds (Press Release - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, February 14, 2011)

Building A Parallel Universe (Wired, December 2010)

George Church receives the Franklin Institute's 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (November 9, 2010)

It Is Within Our Grasp (Harvard Gazette, September 16, 2010)

'Super-Earths': Could They Harbor Life? (Scientific American, August 2, 2010)

Two Separate Quests, One to Discover Habitable Worlds, The Other to Synthesize Artificial Organisms, Now Unite to Redefine "Life" and Its Place in The Universe, PDF
(SeedMagazine.com, January 2010)

Harvard Star-Gazer Sasselov Maps Space Frontier From Davos (Bloomberg, January 25, 2010)

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