NASA maps plan for 'planet-finder' in solar orbit

Managers at the U.S. space agency have quietly started work on an ambitious plan to survey nearby stars for direct evidence of life on planets orbiting them, using a large interferometer at the orbit of Jupiter to spot the planets and analyze them for gases associated with life forms on Earth. With...

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