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Old Scientist: Why aren’t there more British Nobels?

Why did a maverick British astronomer never get the gong? New Scientists of Novembers past reveal it’s a perennial worry

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meteorites landing on early Earth

Space

Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

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Artists impression of an alien skyscape with nearby planets large in the sky

Space

TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

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Algae on panel outside International Space Station

Life

Primitive plants survive almost two years in outer space

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Life

Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other

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What if … We came from space?

Life

What if … We came from space?

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Clusters of living worlds would hint life came from outer space

Life

Clusters of living worlds would hint life came from outer space

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Feedback: A well-stuffed drugs sandwich

Feedback: A well-stuffed drugs sandwich

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The human universe: Could we colonise the stars?

Space

The human universe: Could we colonise the stars?

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Lava could have preserved the origins of life on the moon

Life

Lava could have preserved the origins of life on the moon

New experiments suggest that if life-bearing meteorites hit the young, molten moon, they could have been preserved until today

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Life

Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?

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Space

Finding aliens harder now we know DNA survives space

Analysis

Space

Ancient Earth fossils could be found on the moon

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Space

Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years

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