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The Alien franchise's canon was completely rewritten by its best installment since 1986's Aliens, dropping existing lore for ...

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A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

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Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

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A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...