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The search for alien life often sparks the imagination with images of extraterrestrial beings and strange worlds. However, a ...
Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...
A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...
At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But ...
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Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.
AI-powered chemical analysis uncovered faint biological fingerprints in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, pushing back the origins of oxygen-producing life.