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The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

Amirali Aghazadeh receives funding from Georgia Tech. When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.