<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><h1>Very Few Planets Have the Right Chemistry for Life</h1>
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        <span>By <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive.html" target="_blank">Evan Gough</a> - February 16, 2026</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><<a href="https://www.universetoday.com/articles/very-few-planets-have-the-right-chemistry-for-life" target="_blank">https://www.universetoday.com/articles/very-few-planets-have-the-right-chemistry-for-life</a>></div>Quote:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The idea that life is inevitable elsewhere based purely on the 
staggering number of planets in the Universe is being chipped away at. 
Ultimately, we're in no position to make any solid judgements. But this 
research suggests that planets like Earth, where a million different 
factors lined up just right, are most likely exceedingly rare. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">----------------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Unless some very different forms of "life" are possible.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">BillK</div></div>
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