Earth-like Exoplanets

Earth-like Exoplanets, Volume Three reviews the rapidly expanding study of exoplanets and what these new worlds have revealed regarding planet types located in diverse circumstellar and planetary environments. Currently, Earth remains the only example for life on planets, but other Solar System bodies - Venus, Mars, and the Moon - provide important information about where and when life is possible. As life on Earth and the lack of detected life on bodies in, or near, the habitable zone of the Sun supply much of what is directly known about astrobiology, the possibilities of finding life out there is ripe for new discovery.

• Includes a broad ranging survey of the emerging field of exoplanets and the potential for life in the Universe
• Offers both a comprehensive introduction to, and a modern review of, the coupled field of exoplanet astrobiology
• Highlights exoplanet reviews from experts in the field