Subject: life in the universe
A few weeks old, but an indication that there may be life on a planet ~120 LY away. Alpha Centauri has at least one planet in the "goldilocks zone", but to my knowledge no atmospheric measurements have indicated the presence of products associated with life. Alpha Centauri is ~4 LY away.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0...

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth. A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s atmosphere suggests an abundance of a molecule that on Earth has only one known source: living organisms such as marine algae.