Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

A growing number of studies have cast doubt on earlier claims about signs of life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation, concluding that the available data doesn’t support ...

For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

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An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

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