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'The metal detector has gone off': Perseverance rover's find is a shiny new clue in the search for life on Mars

Mars hasn’t given us proof of life, but it has handed scientists a new kind of mystery. On the western edge of Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring Neretva Vallis, a river-carved valley that once fed a vast Martian lake. There, in an outcrop of ancient mudstone called the Bright Angel formation, the rover found one of its most intriguing targets yet: an…
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Northern lights may be visible in these 12 US states tonight

Aurora watchers: don’t pack up your cameras just yet, as the northern lights may return for one last dazzling display tonight (Oct. 2) before conditions quiet down again over the weekend. Over the past few nights, geomagnetic activity has repeatedly exceeded…
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is shooting out organic molecules that could help create life

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life’s building blocks have been found in the watery geysers of Enceladus, almost twenty years after the plumes were first sampled by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Cassini’s mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended in 2017, but scientists are still making findings buried deep in its…
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How excited should we be about the latest Mars potential biosignature discovery? 'It's arguably the best evidence we have so far'

The Perseverance rover’s discovery of a potential biosignature found on a sedimentary rock on Mars is an exciting development in our search for life elsewhere in the universe, but how does it rank compared to other potential biosignatures that have previously been discovered on the Red Planet — and even beyond? “It’s arguably the best evidence that we have so far for microbial…
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SpaceX targeting Oct. 13 for next Starship megarocket launch

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly again less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced on Monday (Sept. 29) that it’s targeting Oct. 13 for Starship Flight 11, which will be the final launch of the vehicle’s current “Version 2” iteration. Liftoff will occur from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas. The window on Oct. 13 will…
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