The search for habitable planets: Using Earth as a blueprint

by Dr Vincent Kofman (University of Oslo)

Wednesday 14 Oct 2026, 13:30 → 14:30 Europe/Stockholm

FC 61 (AlbaNova Main Building)

The search for habitability beyond the Earth has gained substantial momentum with the discovery of thousands of exoplanets. A very small subset, one that is particularly hard to observe, could be considered habitable. Future telescopes may be able to observe Earth-like planets directly, but what will they be able to constrain about the planets?

In this talk, I will go over the challenges of studying the atmospheres of exoplanets, the tools we use, and how the Earth is a critical blueprint for exoplanet atmospheres.