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2 days ago
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Forget a planet far far away! Aliens once lived in our solar system

Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, radioactive heating on Ceres likely produced hot, mineral-rich brine upwellings that could have supported microbial life.
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2 days ago
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Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable for microbes

Ceres once had subsurface liquid brine with carbon and radioactive heating that could have created conditions suitable for chemotrophic microbes.
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