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Asteroid over Earth

Have we really found an alien protein inside a meteorite?

3 March 2020

A team of researchers say they have discovered a protein molecule inside a meteorite, the first extraterrestrial example ever found, but others are sceptical
Oumuamua

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

31 January 2018

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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