
Astronomers detect an atmosphere on a nearby Earthlike world, boosting the life search
The finding makes it the first potentially habitable planet known to host an atmosphere, moving it to the top tier.

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The finding makes it the first potentially habitable planet known to host an atmosphere, moving it to the top tier.

A 2,400-year-old ritual object was deliberately broken in a culture that burned its own buildings and then vanished.

A NASA imaging analysis of Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia shows six landslides, proving the dwarf planet is still geologically alive.

The Nobel physicist team used Claude to turn a decade-old jamming relation into a publishable proof in Journal of Statistical Mechanics.

Precise tracking showed nongravitational motion, and new telescope images captured a weak tail.

A confirmed rocky-atmosphere discovery at 49 light years shifts exoplanet life searches from hints to evidence and accelerates the next funding cycles.
Helium loss from a rocky exoplanet around LHS 1140 lets scientists infer the remaining atmosphere after billions of years.
This first detection gives the best evidence yet that Earth-like, potentially life-supporting worlds exist beyond our solar system.

A prostaglandin pathway breakdown let EP2 sabotage macrophage cleanup; targeting it improved ageing outcomes in mice.

Strontium isotopes and teeth DNA show where at least 150 children lived before the Royal Navy freed them.

A first for rocky exoplanets: direct atmospheric helium evidence, plus the added pressure of habitability questions.

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