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Scientists Just Found the Building Blocks of Life Near a Distant Star

A NEW HOPE

The finding may bring scientists a step closer to understanding how life originated and how it might spread across the universe.

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A team of European scientists took charge of a powerful telescope in Chile, pointed its arrays at some baby stars quadrillions of miles away and, to their delight, detected signs of some very interesting chemical compounds swirling in the cosmic

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