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alien life

Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

Space

Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

The 500-metre-wide radio telescope in rural China will let us study galaxies, pulsars and potential alien signals that would be too faint for any other scope

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An alien spaceship over a city

Life

Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens

Analysis

Russian telescope

Life

Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

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The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya

Life

Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling

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illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

Space

Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

Analysis

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Life

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

Features

Robert Byer

Space

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

Features

A man wearing an orange boiler suit, hard hat and headtorch stands in the mine

Earth

Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earth’s surface

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China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)

Space

China builds world’s largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens

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Artist's impression of an alien world

Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

Finding extraterrestrial civilisations with technology far beyond our own could be as simple as catching stars or galaxies in a disappearing act

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Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Comment

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

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Life

Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

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