From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

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If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

For decades, scientists and visionaries have debated how to turn Mars into a world humans could call home. From giant mirrors in orbit and nuclear detonations at the poles to greenhouse gas factories ...

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This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...

It's highly unlikely life started organically on Earth, one expert suggests. But an extraterrestrial intervention might ...

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