BREATHE DEEP Astronauts say planet Mars with its dry river beds was once a living biosphere. So as the Sun slowly cools among the spreading stars, will astronomers evolve on chilly warming Venus who for scientific fun explore its outer space and wonder how forms of life could ever have existed on that rubbish-littered rock, third from the Sun?

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