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The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.

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High above the remote Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the northernmost part of Australia, an air-launched ...

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Astronomer Avi Loeb gives his thoughts on the prospect of finding signs of intelligent life beyond our Solar System.

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Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.