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Hubble rounds up the first worlds we’ll check for alien life

Space

Hubble rounds up the first worlds we’ll check for alien life

The space telescope is set to spend hundreds of hours over the next year picking out the perfect planet for its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, to probe in earnest

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Space

The world in 2076: We still haven't found alien life

Features

The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of <em>Arrival</em>

Space

The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival

Culture

Transparent comb jelly

Life

Swarm of voracious comb jellies threatens fish off Italian coast

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Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

Space

Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

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Comb jelly

Earth

Global treaty set to halt invasive species ravaging our oceans

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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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Space

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

We’ve just discovered a planet in the nearest star system that could potentially host life. How do we find out more, and can we go visit?

Analysis

Life

Deep-sea squid cannibals battle it out in a fight to the death

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Life

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

Features

Earth

More than 60 per cent of coral reef in Maldives hit by bleaching

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Space

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

Features

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