Robert William Smith

NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where astronomers using the James Web Space Telescope have found candidates for the first brown dwarfs outside of our galaxy. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani)

Are aliens real? Scientists have been hunting for extraterrestrial life since the time of Aristotle

Aristotle believed the planets revolved around Earth and God could not have created other worlds. Today, scientists scour the surface of Mars for ‘biosignatures’ of microbial life.

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