The Loudest Planet Wins

A new study has shone a new light on searching for habitable worlds, perhaps like Kepler 186f represented here in this artist impression (Credit : NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech)

We are closer than ever to detecting signs of life on another world. The James Webb Space Telescope is already ‘sniffing’ alien atmospheres, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built specifically to find biology beyond Earth. But a new paper raises an uncomfortable question; when we do find that first biosignature, will it actually tell us anything meaningful about life in the universe? The answer, it turns out, might be no.

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