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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists
The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, The Conversation China’s…
Scientists claim to have found evidence of alien life. But ‘biosignatures’ might hide more than they reveal
Artist’s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b. A. Smith/N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge) Campbell Rider, University of Sydney Whether…
Why is one half of Mars so different to the other? ‘Marsquakes’ may have just revealed the answer
A map showing the ‘Martian dichotomy’: the southern highlands are in yellows and oranges, the northern lowlands in…