First Habitable Exoplanet Could Be Discovered by May

"A new mathematical analysis predicts the first truly habitable exoplanet will show itself by early May 2011.

Well, more or less. "There is some wiggle room," said Samuel Arbesman of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, lead author of a new paper posted online and to be published in PLoS ONE Oct. 4. His calculations predict a 50 percent probability that the first habitable exoplanet will be discovered in May 2011, a 66 percent chance by the end of 2013 and 75 percent chance b...