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The main focus of the trip is to study the effects of long-term spaceflight on the body, but the test is also a side mission.

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Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...