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Did We Detect Life on an Alien Planet? With David Kipping

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Did we find life on a distant exoplanet? Neil deGrasse Tyson and astronomer David Kipping discuss the discovery of biosignatures found on K2-18b, how strong they are, and whether it means we found other life in the universe.

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