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Venus is remarkably similar to Earth in many ways, but saying its surface is unsuitable for life is a drastic understatement. In this episode of Dead Planets Society, our hosts attempt to fix it

A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule Sunday, following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample — protected by a heat shield invented in Silicon Valley — landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert Sunday morning, where it was greeted

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

The simple and reliable test could revolutionise the search for life on other worlds, researchers say.

All ages and expertise enjoyed the outer space views.

A groundbreaking study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison challenges carbon-based life assumptions, revealing the potential for non-carbon-based life forms through autocatalysis.

Europa is one of the most likely places in the solar system to support life beyond Earth, and now new findings could make that possibility more likely.

Dwarf planets aren’t expected to carry liquid water, but hints of surprising geological activity spotted with JWST indicate that some of them might have buried oceans