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We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface

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We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface

It might be possible to find evidence of life just a few centimetres below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead

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Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead

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Silhoutted person looking at stars

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I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens

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A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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Antarctica

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How we saw the first signs of intelligent life in space

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Astronaut pee could keep plants alive in space for decades

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Astronaut pee could keep plants alive in space for decades

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Oceans on alien worlds may form when the air explodes in flames

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Oceans on alien worlds may form when the air explodes in flames

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Pre-life molecules found floating in nearby galaxy

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Pre-life molecules found floating in nearby galaxy

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Mars

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7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably

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Oumuamua

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Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system

First seen in October 2017, the space rock 'Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space – and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form

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Hidden exoplanets could be revealed by echoing light

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The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention

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Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

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Life

Why complex life could prove remarkably common in the universe

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