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origins of life

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

Space

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

The gigantic 500-metre disc will boost the search for extraterrestrial life, dark matter and distant pulsars

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Artist's impression of an alien world

Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

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

Life

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

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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A landscape with a distant person looking up at the night sky where the Milky Way is visible

Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

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Map of Mars's methane

Life

Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

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Juno probe

Life

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

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superhabitable AW

Life

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

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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?

We used to think life was constrained to a narrow, warm band around a star – but recent discoveries on icy moons suggest life could exist almost anywhere

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Life

Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets

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Space

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

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Life

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

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Space

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

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