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Over 6000 New Worlds; Do Any of them Contain Life? (with Dr. Malena Rice)

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Looking Up
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Oct 24, 2025
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Summary

After NASA's recent milestone of over 6000 exoplanets tracked, Dean Regas has one big question. Is anyone living on them? On this episode, Dean chats with Dr. Malena Rice, a planetary astrophysicist and assistant professor in the Yale Department of Astronomy, to find out.