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“It is in no one’s interest to claim prematurely that we have detected life,” said Nikku Madhusudhan, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge and an author of the new study, at a news ...

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We’ve wondered what powered the Sun for centuries. Early guesses included meteor showers, chemical combustion, and ...

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