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A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...

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Wine grapes from Texas will soon join worms, human sperm, and cookie dough on a growing list of Earth objects sent to space.

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Consciousness may arise in systems far different than the biology on Earth we are used to, according to University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers, who argue that many forms of conscious ...