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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

Kate Ravilious takes an 8-minute lift ride to an underground lab in Yorkshire, UK, doing research that could help NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission find life

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The control room on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer

Life

Never-before-seen sea creatures filmed in world’s deepest abyss

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Submersible underwater

Earth

Deep-sea alliance set to probe Earth’s final frontier

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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

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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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This deep-sea creature could be the world's oldest living animal

Life

This deep-sea creature could be the world's oldest living animal

We use them to lather and exfoliate while bathing, but the largest of these marine animals wouldn't fit in a bathtub - or even a Jacuzzi

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Life

Tentacled sea creatures are taking over the Earth’s oceans

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Life

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

Features

Life

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

Features

Life

Watch creatures of the abyss in Earth's deepest ocean trench

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