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JWST Detects Steam on Distant Exoplanets. Could Exotic Water Worlds Rewrite the Search for Life?


Water-rich sub-Neptunes may offer key clues to where life could exist beyond Earth. For astrobiologists, the hunt for life outside our solar system begins with the same question you would ask in a desert: where is the water? Among the planets discovered so far, a very common type appears to have in

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