UW News
Joshua Krissansen-Totton
June 25, 2018
UW part of NASA network coordinating search for life on exoplanets
![This image is an artist’s conception of what life could look like on the surface of a distant planet.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/06/04124429/Habitable-Worlds-2017_wide_smaller-150x150.jpg)
Researchers with the UW-led Virtual Planetary Laboratory are central to a group of papers published by NASA researchers today in the journal Astrobiology outlining the history — and suggesting the future — of the search for life on exoplanets, or those orbiting stars other than the sun.