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Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

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Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

The Cassini spacecraft has found molecular hydrogen spurting in the watery plumes from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, an energy source for anything that might live there

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A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

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Artists impression of an alien skyscape with nearby planets large in the sky

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TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

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TRAPPIST-1 seen from one of its 7 planets

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Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water

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Hubble rounds up the first worlds we’ll check for alien life

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Hubble rounds up the first worlds we’ll check for alien life

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The world in 2076: We still haven't found alien life

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The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of <em>Arrival</em>

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The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival

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Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

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Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

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Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens

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Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

Radio telescopes across the world are swinging toward an intriguing signal that could point toward an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation, but have come up empty

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Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling

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Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

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Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

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How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

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