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It's time to go back to visit friends, old and new, on Puffin Rock as RTÉjr brings you the third season of the beautiful show for pre-schoolers narrated by Chris O'Dowd. Have fun with Oona and Baba ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

Stones hold time. Some are formed by the sudden solidification of magma, like basalt, whose dense structure and dark color result from rapid cooling at the surface. Others, such as granite, are born ...

A sample obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake contains potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, according to ...

“It would be amazing to be able to demonstrate conclusively that these features were formed by something that was alive ... once carried water into Jezero Crater. This outcrop of sedimentary rock, ...

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