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Russian telescope

Life

Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

Radio telescopes across the world are swinging toward an intriguing signal that could point toward an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation, but have come up empty

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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

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

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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

Comment

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

A new study says Hubble's successor could spot alien life on three new exoplanets. Should NASA be doing more? Or is it right to focus on other priorities?

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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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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