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Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

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Skeleton Crew" will appeal most to younger viewers, but adults who remember Spielberg’s Amblin era may get swept up in it too ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

Results of the study determined that terrestrial biota had rapidly colonized ... to collect extraterrestrial material originates on a planet awash in microbial life. NASA tries to avoid ...

A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel core that comes in two parts, a solid inner core and a molten outer core. When any terrestrial planet is born, its core is entirely molten, and the solid ...

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