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If we Detect This gas on Other Planets, it’s a Good Sign There’s Life There

Here is an idea that likely never crossed the mind of most space enthusiasts – a gas emitted from...

If Earth Were an Exoplanet, it Would Still be Tricky to Figure Out if There’s Life Here

How would Earth appear to alien astronomers? What would their observations tell them about Earth if they were searching...

A Solar Gravitational Lens Will be Humanity’s Most Powerful Telescope. What are its Best Targets?

One of the central predictions of general relativity is that a massive object such as a star, galaxy, or...

Earthlike Worlds With Oceans and Continents Could be Orbiting red Dwarfs, Detectable by James Webb

“Go then, there are other worlds than these. ” Or so Stephen King said in his famous Dark Tower...

Two “Super Mercury” Exoplanets Found in a Single System

There’s a star system out there with three super-Earth planets and two super-Mercuries. Super-Earths are fairly familiar types...

TESS Finds a Super-Earth and two Mini-Neptunes in a Single System

The field of extrasolar planet studies continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Currently, 5,090 exoplanets have been...

Life can Thrive Around Even the Smallest Stars

Photosynthesis is probably the most important chemical reaction for life on Earth. It is the process plants use...

Are super-Earths more friendly to life than our planet?

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