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The mystery of how life on Earth originated , and whether it exists elsewhere in the universe, are "the raison d’être of space exploration", said Louis Friedman, co-founder of the Planetary Society.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

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