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An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The distant quasar is one of the most powerful known objects in the universe and has an energy output of 1,000...
By Larry O’Hanlon, ISNS Contributor Inside Science News Service (ISNS) — For decades NASA has been “following the water” on Mars with hopes of finding signs of alien life there; or at least signs that future colonists won’t die of thirst. Now a Texas geologist has dared to revive an old, almost heretical idea...