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SETI tests new alien-hunting strategy, but TRAPPIST-1 planets remain silent
By Keith Cooper published
A new search for extraterrestrial radio signals during planetary occultations in the TRAPPIST-1 system provides a promising new strategy for hunting for extraterrestrial life.
The key ingredients for life on Earth came from space, new evidence suggests
By Robert Lea published
'If we can understand how these materials came to be on Earth, it might give us clues to how life originated here, and how it might emerge elsewhere.'
Why haven't we found intelligent alien civilizations? There may be a 'universal limit to technological development’
By Conor Feehly published
Why haven’t we found signs of advanced alien life? Scientists ponder the heavy question.
Mass extinctions on Earth can help us find alien life in the cosmos. Here's how
By Conor Feehly last updated
The history of life on Earth offers clues to aid the search for complex life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Some of Uranus' moons might be able to support life. Here's what a mission might reveal
By Conor Feehly published
"The most exciting prospect at the (Uranian) moons is that they could still host subsurface oceans at present.”
'We are close:' SETI astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol on the search for life
By Leonard David published
Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol seeks answers to two key questions: Are we alone in the universe? How did life on Earth begin in the first place?
Life on alien planets probably wouldn't experience day and night – here's how that may change evolution
By Maureen Cohen published
Organisms on Earth living deep underground or at the bottom of the sea may give us an idea what alien life without a circadian rhythm could be like.
How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures
By Conor Feehly published
"It's now a part of mainstream astrophysics."
Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiraling out of control – here's why that's so dangerous
By Tony Milligan published
Belief in alien visitors is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem. This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist.
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