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Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

It’s very important that conflict can continue, not just on Earth, but also throughout the Solar System and future galactic locations. So I am requesting all aliens within one light parsec to come to ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern ...

The researchers said that the "hydroxyl gigamaser" was generated by the merger of two galaxies some 8 billion light-years away.

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