It’s a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a watery exoplanet with a red dwarf sun overhead. A new study suggests that the exoplanet GJ 3378b, which ...

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