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A NASA-funded team of scientists has announced that there is evidence of previous life on Mars. This book analyses the results from the meteorite A...

If you always thought that it was Giovanni Schiaparelli who first coined the phrase 'Canali' pertaining to the straight lines he appeared to observ...

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First observed by Galileo, Saturn lies in the distant reaches of the solar system; it is the sixth planet, a gaseous giant between Jupiter and Uran...

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