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Alien life could look nothing like what we expect. Here's how microbes beyond Earth might live without liquid water
Every known living thing on Earth needs water. The life-giving liquid makes up around 60 percent of each human’s body weight, ...
We might have had it wrong this whole time.
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing, but the hunt for extraterrestrial life can now include purple bacteria, according to a group of astronomers who are ...
A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...
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