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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

A new study says Hubble's successor could spot alien life on three new exoplanets. Should NASA be doing more? Or is it right to focus on other priorities?

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A landscape with a distant person looking up at the night sky where the Milky Way is visible

Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

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Map of Mars's methane

Life

Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

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Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

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superhabitable AW

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth – right next door

Features

The Allen Telescope Array

Life

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

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Life

Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?

Features

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

We keep waiting for aliens to get in touch – but there could be smarter trails to follow, from feats of cosmic engineering to interplanetary pollution

Features

Space

Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

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Life

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

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Earth

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

CultureLab

Life

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

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