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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

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SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

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Person looking up at starry night at Spiral Jetty, USA. Provider: Alamy Stock Photo Source: www.alamy.com Copyright: Celestine Dagli/Alamy

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Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

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Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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New ��˾þ� recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins

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How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is

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How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is

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Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to the biggest question in the universe, we will need to bring samples back to Earth

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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Hopes of finding aliens were raised in 2025 – but quickly faded

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Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star

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Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life

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