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Audio Edition: The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the 'Cosmic Shoreline'

Audio Edition: The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the 'Cosmic Shoreline'

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Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place.


The story How Undergraduate The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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Audio Edition: The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the 'Cosmic Shoreline'

Audio Edition: The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the 'Cosmic Shoreline'

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