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Pluto, Other Faraway Worlds May Have Buried Oceans
December 01, 2017 | ArticleThere may be a lot more potentially habitable worlds zooming through the cold depths of deep space than scientists had thought.
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Groundwater on Mars? Salty Antarctic Pond Could Reveal Clues
December 01, 2017 | ArticleA briny pond in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys could be receiving its water from an underground aquifer, in conditions not dissimilar to those found on the Red Planet.
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Hydrothermal Vent Experiments Bring Saturn Moon Enceladus to Earth
December 01, 2017 | ArticleLaboratory experiments on Earth can now simulate the conditions under which life might emerge on Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other icy alien worlds, according to recent research.
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'Equator Trap' May Complicate Search for Alien Life
November 30, 2017 | ArticleSpotting signs of life in an alien planet's atmosphere may be tougher than scientists had thought.
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Bacteria 'from Outer Space' Found on Space Station, Cosmonaut Says: Report
November 28, 2017 | ArticleScientists have detected living bacteria "from outer space" in samples collected from the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) during spacewalks, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov told Russia's state-owned TASS news agency.
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Stellar Storms May Light Up Signs of Life on Alien Planets
November 27, 2017 | ArticleFierce stellar storms may shine light on some key signs of life in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
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Space Dust Could Help Life Jump from Planet to Planet
November 21, 2017 | ArticleFast-moving dust could theoretically knock microbes floating high up in a world's atmosphere out into space, potentially sending the bugs on a trip to another planet — perhaps even one orbiting a different star, according to a new study.
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Weird Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Flowing Water After All
November 20, 2017 | ArticleBad news for microbes on Mars: A new paper argues that dark streaks on the Martian surface are not caused by underground supplies of liquid water.
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Phoning E.T.: Message Sent to Nearby Planet That Could Host Life
November 16, 2017 | ArticleIf there are any intelligent aliens in the GJ 273 system, they can expect to hear from us about a dozen years from now.
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Chemists May Have Found the 'Missing Link' to the First Life on Earth
November 13, 2017 | ArticleThe search for the ancient chemical origins of life has a new candidate — a multitasking enzyme that may have set the evolutionary ball rolling.
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