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NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
Jun 3, 2021
NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.
Did Earth’s early rise in oxygen help multicellular life evolve?
May 19, 2021
A new study is taking the air out of a hypothesis linking early Earth's oxygenation to larger, more complex organisms.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Makes Historic First Flight
Apr 19, 2021
The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet is possible.
Beware oxygen false positives in search for signs of life on other planets
Apr 16, 2021
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable 'biosignature,' but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of
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What You Need to Know About Astrobiology
This video from NASA’s What you Need to Know series tackles the questions of astrobiology. How did life begin on Earth? Does life exist beyond our home planet? How do we search for it? These are the really tough questions astrobiologists want to answer by studying life as we know it.
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