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origins of life

A man wearing an orange boiler suit, hard hat and headtorch stands in the mine

Earth

Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earth’s surface

Kate Ravilious takes an 8-minute lift ride to an underground lab in Yorkshire, UK, doing research that could help NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission find life

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China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)

Space

China builds world’s largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens

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Artist's impression of an alien world

Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

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Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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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

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The Allen Telescope Array

Life

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

The extraterrestrial-hunting SETI Institute is aiming its array of radio telescopes at 20,000 small, cold stars unlike our own to see if anyone is home

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Life

Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?

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Life

Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets

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Space

Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all

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Life

How to find ET: 7 ways aliens might give themselves away

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