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Stromatolites Found Beneath South Korean Impact Crater Point to Long‑Lived Hydrothermal Lake

Mineral chemistry plus radiocarbon evidence suggest a multi‑millennial post‑impact hydrothermal lake that may have hosted microbial life, with dating uncertainties keeping broader claims provisional.

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2mo ago

Cornell Team Publishes Vetted List of 45 Rocky Exoplanets Most Likely to Host Life

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3mo ago

Trump Directs Agencies to Begin Publishing U.S. UFO and Extraterrestrial Records

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4mo ago

Earth-Sized Exoplanet Candidate Found 146 Light-Years Away Around a K-Dwarf

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6mo ago

Lassen 'Fire Amoeba' Replicates at 63°C, Setting a New Eukaryotic Heat Limit

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7mo ago

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Heat Escaping From Both Poles of Enceladus, Strengthening Case for a Long‑Lived Ocean

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7mo ago

Nearby Super‑Earth GJ 251 c Detected in Habitable Zone After Two‑Decade Radial‑Velocity Campaign

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7mo ago

Scientists Detect Habitable-Zone ‘Super‑Earth’ GJ 251 c Just 18 Light‑Years Away

12 ARTICLES

7mo ago

New ‘Radical Mundanity’ Hypothesis Recasts the Fermi Paradox

10 ARTICLES

8mo ago

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

5 ARTICLES

8mo ago

NASA Confirms 6,000 Exoplanets, Marking a New Phase in the Search for Other Worlds

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8mo ago

UCSC Model Links JWST Steam Detections to the Interiors of Sub‑Neptune Worlds

6 ARTICLES

9mo ago

New Rectangular Space Telescope Concept Targets Earth-Like Planets Within 30 Light-Years

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10mo ago

JWST Finds No Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1d, Removing It From Earth-Analog List

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10mo ago

First Synthesis of Methanetetrol Reveals Photodissociation Hurdles for Interstellar Detection

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last yr.

Potential Biosignatures Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b Challenge Understanding of Life Beyond Earth

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last yr.

James Webb Telescope Detects Sulfur Compounds Suggesting Potential Life on Exoplanet K2-18b

Life Beyond Earth

Stromatolites Found Beneath South Korean Impact Crater Point to Long‑Lived Hydrothermal Lake

Cornell Team Publishes Vetted List of 45 Rocky Exoplanets Most Likely to Host Life

Trump Directs Agencies to Begin Publishing U.S. UFO and Extraterrestrial Records

Earth-Sized Exoplanet Candidate Found 146 Light-Years Away Around a K-Dwarf

Lassen 'Fire Amoeba' Replicates at 63°C, Setting a New Eukaryotic Heat Limit

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Heat Escaping From Both Poles of Enceladus, Strengthening Case for a Long‑Lived Ocean

Nearby Super‑Earth GJ 251 c Detected in Habitable Zone After Two‑Decade Radial‑Velocity Campaign

Scientists Detect Habitable-Zone ‘Super‑Earth’ GJ 251 c Just 18 Light‑Years Away

New ‘Radical Mundanity’ Hypothesis Recasts the Fermi Paradox

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

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NASA Confirms 6,000 Exoplanets, Marking a New Phase in the Search for Other Worlds

UCSC Model Links JWST Steam Detections to the Interiors of Sub‑Neptune Worlds

New Rectangular Space Telescope Concept Targets Earth-Like Planets Within 30 Light-Years

JWST Finds No Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1d, Removing It From Earth-Analog List

First Synthesis of Methanetetrol Reveals Photodissociation Hurdles for Interstellar Detection

Potential Biosignatures Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b Challenge Understanding of Life Beyond Earth

Potential Biosignature Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b

Potential Biosignatures Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b

Astronomers Detect Strongest Potential Biosignature on Exoplanet K2-18 b

James Webb Telescope Detects Sulfur Compounds Suggesting Potential Life on Exoplanet K2-18b

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