Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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A recent crash landing on the Moon was an astrobiologist's worst-case scenario, raising the question of whether we're just doomed to contaminate every world we'll ever touch.
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We think of water as the most essential ingredient for life, but as a recent discovery shows, it can also be toxic to living things in alien environments
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The good news is that Mars had briny oceans usually perfect for life. The bad news is that the brine contained salts used in rocket fuel...