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Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth
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Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem
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Comets may bring ingredients for life most easily to clustered planets
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How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all
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Ocean bacteria may be closest relatives of mitochondria in our cells
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Mars used to have wet and dry seasons similar to ones on Earth
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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens
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1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life
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Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes
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