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Article: Life in the Universe, Search for
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Life in the Universe, Search for
It is an old question, and a persistent one: Is there life elsewhere in the cosmos? Is the universe more than just an enormous collection of dead rock and glowing gas, with only one inhabited world?
While speculation about life in space is an old pastime, a serious, scientific search for it is very new. Despite the impression one may get from movies and television, scientists still have not found any conclusive evidence of biology beyond Earth
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not even evidence of the simplest microbes. But many scientists expect that this situation will soon change.
Part of their optimism is due to an astounding fact revealed by centuries of studying the ...
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