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Astronomers find possible alien life on planet

Chemical Hints on a Distant Planet Offer ‘Strongest Evidence Yet’ for Life Outside Our Solar System, Astronomers Say

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution it’s far too early to call the findings definitive

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Scientists find "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet K2-18b: "This could be the tipping point"

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

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Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

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This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

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The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

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This bizarre exoplanet orbits two stars in a way never seen before

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

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James Webb Space Telescope sees a celestial Venn diagram around a dying star

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

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Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may be orbiting two failed stars

Scientists believe that there's a planet like the desert planet Tatooine from 'Star Wars' that orbits a pair of failed stars.

Webb Captures a Planet’s Final Plunge Into Its Star – And It Wasn’t What Scientists Expected

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete ...

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Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists say

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

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