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Scientists Name 45 Top Exoplanets to Target in the Search for Life

The peer-reviewed list is meant to steer scarce telescope time toward the most promising nearby worlds.

Direct Spectroscopy Confirms Second Protoplanet in WISPIT 2 Disk

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Hayabusa2’s Ryugu Samples Confirm All Five DNA/RNA Bases, Pointing to Space-Born Formation Clues

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

JWST Helps Reveal Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

Ryugu Samples Contain All Five DNA and RNA Bases, Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

SETI Study Finds Stellar Space Weather Can Smear Technosignatures Past Current Searches

ALMA Finds Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Strikingly Methanol‑Rich With Unusual Outgassing

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

SETI Study Finds Stellar Space Weather May Smear Alien Radio Signals

ALMA Maps Show Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Exceptionally Methanol-Rich

SETI Study Finds Stellar Space Weather May Be Masking Narrowband Technosignatures

Johns Hopkins Test Finds Microbe Survives Mars-Impact Pressures

Tardigrades Struggle in Martian Soil Simulant, Then Recover After a Water Rinse

JUICE Releases Best-Yet Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as Data Flow Begins

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

Pentagon Says It Is Working on Trump-Ordered UFO File Release

New Spectra Challenge ‘Yellow Hypergiant’ Claim for Colossal LMC Star WOH G64

Bayesian Study Finds Hidden Nearby Alien Signals Unlikely, Urges Galaxy-Wide SETI Surveys

Trump Orders Agencies to Ready Alien and UFO Records, Accuses Obama of Revealing Secrets