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In the world of astronomy, there would be no bigger accomplishment than finding life on a planet outside of Earth

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In the world of astronomy, there would be no bigger accomplishment than finding life on a planet outside of Earth

We know there's no intelligent life in our solar system outside of Earth. There's still a chance we find some form of life on Mars or, better yet, beneath the icy crusts of moons like Enceladus or Europa, but if we want to find extraterrestrial life we might have to look to other star systems for it. That means attempting to glean information from observations made at an incredible distance, and as a new research paper published in AGU Advances points out, we might end up "finding" life that isn't really there. In the paper, the authors explain that current...