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In April’s Sky at Night, chemist Mark Sephton revealed how we’ll look for

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20 April, 2023

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‘clearest sign’ of alien life on mars found by nasa

A detailed study of rocks on the Red Planet has revealed intricate patterns resembling leopard spots – “the clearest sign of life we’ve ever found on Mars,” according to NASA’s acting administrator Se

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Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside mars may be ‘failed planets’

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Chinese scientists hunt for alien radio signals in a ‘potentially habitable’ star system

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about ...

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First contact seven missions that gave us our first real look at alien worlds

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

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Nasa finds new evidence for life on mars

We’ve had a few false alarms before – including fossilised microbes and signs of carbon dioxide production in Martian rocks – but NASA has now cautiously suggested it’s found signs that life once exis