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Life beyond Earth

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Are we alone? Scientists search for an extraterrestrial answer

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Busy bacteria leave big mark

Under Untersee: A diver collects specimens from stromatolites, cone-shaped mounds built by bacteria, on the floor of Antarctica’s Lake Untersee. © 2011 Dale T. Andersen - http://daleandersen.seti.org

Earth’s earliest life-forms built mounds on an Antarctic lake bottom

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Life in the bacterial underground

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Tiny life forms in rock may coax minerals to release hydrogen for food

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