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Mars rover makes the most significant find yet in the search for alien life
Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for early life.
SpaceX is set to launch 4 people on a first-of-its-kind mission around Earth’s poles. Here’s what to know
A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...
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Why does nearly all life breathe oxygen?
So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...
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NASA rover spots hundreds of 'spider eggs' on Mars — and scientists have no idea how they got there
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...
Curiosity rover makes ‘arguably the most exciting organic detection to date on Mars’
The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Does all intelligent life face a Great Filter?
The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...