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Topic: extraterrestrial life

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

Dwarf planet could reveal origin of life

Elizabeth Howell
Planet Venus (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

Venus probably never had an ocean: study

Matthew Rozsa
Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Solvent extractions of the Ryugu samples on a clean bench (ISO6, Class 100) inside a clean room (ISO5, Class 1000) performed by Hiroshi Naraoka at Kyushu University in Japan. (JAXA/NASA)

Asteroid bacteria not aliens after all

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mars (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

The icy climate of Mars' past revealed

Matthew Rozsa
Saturn's moon Enceladus (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Scientists recreate a Saturn moon in lab

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Odds for alien life on Europa drop

Matthew Rozsa
Carbon, Earth, Planet (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does non-carbon-based life exist?

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
View Of Earth's Moon Against The Sky At Night (Getty Images/Alexander Rieber/EyeEm)

Microbial life may exist on the Moon

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of the exoplanet VHS 1256 b. (NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI))

Webb eyes exoplanet with water, methane

Nicole Karlis
Rover on Mars (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

When Mars went through climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's moon may have secret lakes

Matthew Rozsa
Space warp travels through the universe (Getty Images/pixelparticle)

Interstellar travel via nomad planets?

Nicole Karlis
Artist's interpretation of habitable alien planets, a distant star system (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Are we looking for aliens the wrong way?

Nicole Karlis
Planet Venus (Getty Images/3quarks)

Sulfur dioxide mistaken for life sign?

Matthew Rozsa
Computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of the planet Venus, showing clouds of sulphuric acid obscuring the Sun. (Getty Images)

Cold water on possibility of Venus life

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/3quarks)

A lot of liquid water may exist on Mars

Matthew Rozsa
A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JP)

Move over, Mars: Venus is cool again

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Venus (Getty Images)

Why there may be life on Venus

Nicole Karlis
Photomicrograph Of Martian Meteorite Alh84001 (Getty Images)

Mars meteorite mystery persists

Nicholas Booth, Elizabeth Howell
This undated handout photo provided by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute, shows the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Seth Shostak, SETI Institute)

Astronomer explains how to see aliens

Jason Wright - The Conversation
(Getty/rajeshbac)

Colonizing Mars means contaminating Mars

David Weintraub - The Conversation
Sunset over the Dunn Solar Telescope in Sunspot, NM. Part of the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak. (Wikimedia)

Observatory closure not due to aliens

Nicole Karlis
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