A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

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Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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