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The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...
How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what ...
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Signs of life on K2-18 b are revisited as a new NASA-led study finds no conclusive evidence for dimethyl sulfide, tempering ...
Ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around ...
Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is ...
Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet – but new observations from JWST suggest ...
New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...
A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of past or present life linked to biological activity, on an exoplanet named ...
The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per ...
A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of past or present life linked to biological activity, on an exoplanet named ...