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This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

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The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

A new study by an international team of researchers has uncovered troves of microbes thriving in the hostile subsurface of the earth, far from the life-giving energy of the sun. Chief among the ...

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...

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While readers don’t get to see him in action, The Ultimates #8 makes it clear that Earth-6160’s Galactus doesn’t go around extinguishing life on countless planets in the universe ...