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1 day ago

Aerial aliens: Why cloudy worlds might make detecting life easier

Search targets atmospheric biosignatures and planetary context; cloudy and hazy exoplanets may enhance detectability while stellar activity and false positives complicate interpretation.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 months ago

New Planet-Hunting Tools Seek out Alien Earths

Red dwarfs, or M dwarfs, are the most tempting places to seek alien Earths because they're the most abundant and enduring stars. They make up the majority of the stars in the Milky Way and shine with a slow thermonuclear simmer that should allow them to live exponentially longer than mosteven, say, for 14 trillion years, or 1,000 times the current age of the universe.
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