How to find a l ien life

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Scientists have a variety of ways to search for life in the cosmos

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18 January, 2024

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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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A guide to exoplanets

How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

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Possible planet found at alpha centauri a

The number of planets discovered orbiting other stars stands at over 6,000 and counting, but that’s just the confirmed ones. Many more candidate exoplanets are awaiting verification, some of which are

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Our weird universe

From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe

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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