A major technological breakthrough in sensing signs of life that researchers are hailing as the “holy grail of astrobiology” is providing new hope that the search for life on other planets may bear fruit sooner than once thought.
In the last few decades, technologies that include new telescopes, satellites, and rovers have found tantalizing signs of the building blocks of life on other planets and moons, both inside and outside of our solar system. Yet none have been able to say definitively whether extraterrestrial life has ever existed, or if there are locations where it may even exist today.
Now, a new system could change that dynamic, leading to the first undeniable detection of life on another planet in the very near future.
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