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why water could kill life on mars
When rains came to one of the driest places on Earth, an unprecedented mass extinction ensued. The assumption was that this rainfall would turn this remote region of the Atacama Desert in Chile into a...
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we think aliens may lurk in europa’s oceans. we might be disappointed…
Imagine a spaceship finally landing on Europa and slowly drilling into the ice. After weeks of very careful progress, it pierces the moon’s frozen shell and releases a small semi-autonomous submarine...
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a baby star and a cloud of organic molecules may help us in the search for...
Young solar systems still trying to form out of a disk of gas and dust are fascinating places that can hold answers to many mysteries about our own origins. Take the protoplanetary disk around V883...
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how a flare with the power of a quarter of a trillion nukes could create life
ULAS J224940.13−011236.9 is technically a star, although it doesn’t burn much hotter than a typical flame and is roughly the size of Jupiter. Any lighter or cooler and it would be classified as a...
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why the wow! signal wasn’t just a rogue comet
Whenever scientists talk about the possibility of detecting alien intelligence, just about every discussion will mention the Wow! Signal, a weird transmission from 1977 we’ve been trying to explain...
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if the aliens are here, we’re all in big trouble
Illustration by Alexey Andreev Apparently, American media decided that a global pandemic, the erosion of democracy and rule of law, helicopters flying on Mars, and new spasm of geopolitical turmoil in...
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will all the aliens we meet end up being robots?
After getting the Moderna double tap and splurging on some nicer seats on my trip across the country, I decided to relax with a good book. Well, as much as one can relax in a pressurized metal tube...
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the galactic graveyard: why alien civilizations in our galaxy may be long gone
Illustration by Jorge Jacinto One day, we may venture to the stars, hoping to make contact with alien civilizations as we hop from solar system to solar system, and find nothing more than alien ruins...
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why a scientist wants to look for ufo shards in the ocean, and why he’ll fail
In the popular science world, there’s now a bit of a tradition. Every time there’s a headline that claims we’re on the verge of finding aliens or alien technology, those of us who know read the...
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did nasa find evidence of life on mars? sort of…
NASA’s rover Perseverance, or Percy, as his friends call him, has been a busy little robot and is currently digging and drilling away in Jezero Crater on Mars, which hosts what’s thought to be a delta...
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