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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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From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Ripples in time a decade of gravitational wave detections

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