Exploring the Cosmic Shoreline: Searching for Life Beyond Earth

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.

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