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Building blocks of life can form long before stars
Nov 27, 2020

New research suggest that glycine, and very likely other amino acids, form in dense interstellar clouds well before they transform into new
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Europa Glows: Radiation Does a Bright Number on Jupiter’s Moon
Nov 12, 2020

New lab experiments re-create the environment of Europa and find that the icy moon shines, even on its nightside. The effect is
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NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Surface of Moon
Oct 28, 2020

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.
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Smile, wave: Some exoplanets may be able to see us, too
Oct 26, 2020

Some exoplanets have a direct line of sight to observe Earth’s biological qualities from far, far away.
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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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Where Will We First Land with Humans on Mars?

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Bare Bones

You may not feel that your skeleton does very much. But without it you’d be
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Into the Deep

Have you ever heard worms arguing? Deep-sea scientists use hydrophones to eavesdrop on “mouth-fighting worms.”
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Sex Post Facto (rebroadcast)

Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer. 
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Time Travel Agents (rebroadcast)

Hey, let’s meet last week for coffee. Okay, we can’t meet in the past… yet.
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The Other Living World (rebroadcast)

Reason for hope is just one thing that ecologist Carl Safina can offer.  He understands
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