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Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

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Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

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Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?