Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism.There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, could be an ocean world capable of hosting microbial life, at least.Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating...
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Business & FinanceEnvironment05 March 2024, 2:23 pm 1 minute
Reuters exclusively reported that a United Nations-backed alliance of banks is proposing its members disclose more...
British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the United Kingdom.Teams...
After the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the PSLV-C60 carrying the SpaDeX spacecraft on Monday, marking its final mission of 2024, the...
Weapons in space. Fighter jets powered by artificial intelligence.As the Biden administration comes to a close, one of its legacies will be kicking off...
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