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Voyage of the Interstellar Apes: A Q&A With Director Neil Burger

A technician examines one of Perseverance's sample tubes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When the tube returns to Earth, it will contain Mars rocks and, just maybe, hints of alilen life. (Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech)

If Perseverance Finds Evidence of Life on Mars, How Will We Recognize It?

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Endless Versions of You in Endless Parallel Universes? A Growing Number of Physicists Embrace the Idea.

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At 100, James Lovelock Has New Ideas About Gaia and Earth’s Future

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These New Technologies Could Make Interstellar Travel Real

Simulated view of an Earthlike exoplanet, reconstructed by a space telescope located about 100 billion kilometers from the Sun. (Credit: Slava Turyshev)

The Cheater's Guide to Interstellar Travel: A Conversation with Slava Turyshev

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Life is a Highway (of Flying Space Rocks)

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What Happens When You Go Beyond the Final Frontier?

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Why We Still Don't Know How Fast the Universe is Expanding

Snapshot of the solar system, highlighting the various populations in the Kuiper Belt (colors). That whole outer zone is unexplored...but not for long. (Credit: Wes Fraser, National Research Council of Canada)

Once More, Into the Unknown

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50 Years Later, Still Processing Apollo 8's Message of Hope and Desolation

Asteroids Ryugu (left) and Bennu (right), shown side by side roughly to scale. Soon we'll be getting to know a lot more miniature worlds like these. (Credit: JAXA, left, NASA-GSFC/U-Az, right)

It's a Small Solar System After All

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