If you were ever wondering where you'd be when NASA announced peer-reviewed evidence hinting at extraterrestrial life - long dead, if it existed at all - look around, because this is it.

Let's qualify this discovery : The evidence is contained in a rock that's around 140 million miles away and has only been studied via photograph or the instruments on NASA's Perseverance rover. NASA's scientists aren't 100 percent sure what they've found is evidence of biological life. But so far, no simple abiotic explanation fits all the data.

"In the past we thought we found signs of life, and when we put [our findings] out to the scientific community they would come back and say, well, listen - there are different explanations," US Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy sai

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