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alien life

Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

We assumed habitable planets couldn't exist in solar systems where gas giants ricochet around. So why do we keep finding them?

Features

superhabitable AW

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth – right next door

Features

The Allen Telescope Array

Life

SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens

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Life

Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?

Features

Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets

Life

Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets

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'alien megastructure' star

Space

Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all

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How to find ET: 7 ways aliens might give themselves away

Life

How to find ET: 7 ways aliens might give themselves away

Features

Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

Space

Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

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<em>The Visit</em>: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

Life

The Visit: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

CultureLab

<em>Here Be Dragons</em>: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

Earth

Here Be Dragons: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

To anticipate even some of the risks that come from our research, we must vigorously debate the future, urges a provocative book by Olle Häggström

CultureLab

Life

Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

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Life

Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

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Life

Nuclear apocalypse or nanotech invasions could reveal alien life

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Life

$100m project uses world's best radio telescopes to find aliens

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