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The Allen Telescope Array

Life

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

The extraterrestrial-hunting SETI Institute is aiming its array of radio telescopes at 20,000 small, cold stars unlike our own to see if anyone is home

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Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

Life

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

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Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

Life

Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

The search for vital signs of life in the atmospheres of other planets has taken a new turn with a vast library of biosignatures that could help us detect ET

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Life

Nuclear apocalypse or nanotech invasions could reveal alien life

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

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The human universe: Could we colonise the stars?

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Life

The human universe: If aliens exist, do they know we're here?

Features

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