Scientists found that smaller rocky planets including Earth would be far more easy to spot than the gas and ice giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that are further from the sun. Aliens on at least nine planets beyond the solar system could see - and potentially study - Earth, scientists have claimed.
The new research from Queen's University Belfast offers a whole new angle to exoplanet-hunting, looking at how an alien observer might be able to detect Earth using our own methods.The scientists identified parts of the sky from where various planets in our solar system could be seen passing in front of the sun as they undertake so called "transits". Of the thousands of known exoplanets* the team identified 68 worlds where observers would see one or more planets in our solar system transiting the sun...CONTINUE READING
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