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"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

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ALIENS might be lurking on a far-off ocean planet in an “astounding” discovery, Britain’s brainiest scientists have told The ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b may contain potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the ...

Finding evidence for aliens — even microscopic ones — would confirm the widespread belief that life is not an unlikely event, constrained to a small number of planets and moons. It could be ...

The face that would have belonged to an "alien skull", which was found in a Swiss village in the 1970s, has now been remade ...