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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.
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Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable 'biosignature,' but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of
Life on Venus?
Apr 12, 2021
To confirm life on other planets, we need to detect far more molecules in their atmospheres than we currently do
Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites
Jan 12, 2021
New discovery may validate theories of the formation of organic compounds in extraterrestrial environments.
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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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End of Eternity
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Skeptic Check: Flat Earth (rebroadcast)
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Waste Not (rebroadcast)
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Venom Diagram (rebroadcast)
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Volcanic Mind Melt
The Earth’s surface is dappled with more than a thousand volcanoes. They mark the edges
