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The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

The 'Invincible' bosses explain those young Nolan flashbacks, Eve's pregnancy and more in the Season 4 premiere.

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Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

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