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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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Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden ...

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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.