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Alien life could look nothing like what we expect. Here's how microbes beyond Earth might live without liquid water
Every known living thing on Earth needs water. The life-giving liquid makes up around 60 percent of each human’s body weight, ...
If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...
Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like exoplanets that are the strongest known candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life.
Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...
Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
We might have had it wrong this whole time.
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Asteroid impacts could catapult extraterrestrial life into space, experiment hints
"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.
Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...
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