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Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

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Doctor Who was supposed to get a new lease on life thanks to a deal between Disney and BBC, but now its future is up in the ...

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A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Researchers looking for signs of extraterrestrial life instead stumbled upon a pulsar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

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