{
  "id": 3870417,
  "title": "Astronaut Microbes Might Survive at Moon's Pole, NASA Warns",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/astronaut-microbes-might-survive-at-moons-pole-nasa-warns",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-28T01:51:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Universe Today",
    "slug": "universe-today",
    "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronaut-microbes-might-survive-at-moons-pole-nasa-warns"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "One of the primary objectives of space exploration that often gets overlooked is the intense effort that goes into ensuring Earth microbes don’t contaminate planetary objects, also called forward contamination. This is done to prevent contaminating any potential life that might be present could get killed off my Earth microbes and scientists don’t want to make false discoveries. While space…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}