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Intriguing meteorite from Mars reveals 'enormous organic diversity', scientists say

Intriguing meteorite from Mars reveals ‘enormous organic diversity’, scientists say

In a recent study published in Scientists progressan international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich examined the Martian meteorite Tissint, which fell near the village of Tissint, Morocco, on July 18, 2011, with pieces of the meteorite found up to about 50 kilometers away (30 miles) from the market town. What …

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The imagined surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f.

The James Webb Space Telescope encounters the 7 intriguing exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1

Step out tonight and watch Jupiter shine brightly in the south. Now look just to his right and travel 235 trillion miles (378 trillion kilometers) into the cosmos. Here, between the head of Pisces and the side of Aquarius is a nondescript star called TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool red dwarf discovered in 1999. TRAPPIST-1 was largely …

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Mars rover unearths intriguing clues in hunt for life beyond Earth

Mars rover unearths intriguing clues in hunt for life beyond Earth

Comment this story Comment Deep in a shallow crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has touched what scientists hope is dirt. The Martian rocks excavated by the rover show signs of an aquatic past and are loaded with the kind of organic molecules that underlie life as we know it. Scientists collaborating on the mission …

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