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JWST lacks the precision to detect life on exoplanets, and this new telescope aims to change that.

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The winds on seven hellish alien worlds are moving in the wrong direction. That strange anomaly just cracked open one of ...

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Scientists say extraterrestrial life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but vast distances, enormous energy requirements ...

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