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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

A decade ago, we discovered an exceptionally exciting exoplanet that could be the best candidate for hosting alien life. Now we’re about to find out if it really is

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

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SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

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Person looking up at starry night at Spiral Jetty, USA. Provider: Alamy Stock Photo Source: www.alamy.com Copyright: Celestine Dagli/Alamy

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Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

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Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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MB05RG Oysters and champagne with lemon wedge and mignette dressing on white plate on blue distressed vintage table.

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Chemistry

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins

Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this

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Mind

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is

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Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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Hopes of finding aliens were raised in 2025 – but quickly faded

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