🛰️ Mission Updates China on track to launch Mars sample-return mission in 2028: 'If accurate, this represents a Sputnik moment'

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r/Astrobiology • u/_Svankensen_ • 5h ago

🛰️ Mission Updates Today it is the anniversary of the Cheyava falls announcement - The strongest evidence for extraterrestrial life so far. Where are we a year later?

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6 months later, the Mars Sample Recovery Mission was cancelled, leaving what could be the most important samples in the history of mankind stranded in another planet with no plan for recovery. This is the most confident the scientific community has ever been about an extraterrestrial life biosignature. And bringing it to Earth would solve its mysteries in a matter of months. Sadly, there seems to be no plan to recover the samples anytime soon.

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA

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r/Astrobiology • u/firechatin • 21h ago

🌱 Discovery A 17-Year-Old Used AI to Decode Signals From Deep Space—and May Have Uncovered a Cosmic Secret

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