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Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life
Our arm of the Milky Way is filled with older, metal-rich stars. New research suggests these might provide the best conditions for life to form on their planets
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Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations
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Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life’s origins
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Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhospitable gas planet
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Why we’re finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets
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What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life
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Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus鈥檚 acid clouds
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Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success
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How the JUICE mission will look for habitability on Jupiter’s moons
ESA鈥檚 JUICE mission will help us better understand whether Jupiter鈥檚 icy moons are habitable. But we need to be open to their unexpected secrets, says principal investigator Michele Dougherty
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Aliens on low-oxygen worlds may never discover fire
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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens
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Space germs: How can we avoid contaminating other worlds?
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Why sending messages to extraterrestrials is controversial
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