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alien life
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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy There is something strange about Earth. A few billion years ago, a process started…
Search for alien transmissions in promising TRAPPIST-1 star system draws a blank
Artist’s impression of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system NASA A search for aliens communicating between planets…
Two new books explore how UFOs captured the world’s imagination
Greg Eghigian’s After the Flying Saucers Came and Luis Elizondo’s Imminent both show how our fascination with UFOs…
Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa – and what it’s looking for
Seen against the backdrop of Jupiter’s dramatic, swirling atmosphere, Europa might at first appear a bit drab. With…
Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life
CrackerClips Stock Media/Alamy All the life we know of in the entire universe is squeezed onto a tiny…
Dozens of stars show signs of Dyson spheres built by advanced alien civilisations
Dyson spheres could capture the energy from a star dotted zebra/Alamy Two surveys of millions of stars in…
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
Alien civilisations that have terraformed multiple planets may be detectable from afar dotted zebra/Alamy Nearby planets that look…
Bennu: How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life’s origins
ON THE morning of 24 September 2023, Dante Lauretta woke up early, his pulse racing. For 20 years,…
K2-18b: Habitable ocean world may actually be inhospitable gas planet
An artist’s impression showing K2-18b as a potentially habitable ocean world may not be correct NASA, CSA, ESA,…
Where are all the exomoons? The hunt for worlds orbiting alien planets
YEARS ago, when David Kipping lived in London, he would walk home through the city and look up…