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Water plumes spark a race to Jupiter moon Europa

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Water plumes spark a race to Jupiter moon Europa

Recent water geysers on Europa are raising hopes that the icy moon is a hot destination in the hunt for alien life – several craft are lining up to visit

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First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth

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First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth

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Forgotten aliens: We should hunt for viruses in space

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Forgotten aliens: We should hunt for viruses in space

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Alien life could have basked in big bang's afterglow

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Surprisingly youthful Mars surface helps alien hunt

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Surprisingly youthful Mars surface helps alien hunt

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Alien life may flourish on purple planets

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Meteor impact trapped ancient swamp plants in glass

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Meteor impact trapped ancient swamp plants in glass

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We'll have the tools to spot nearby aliens by 2030

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Exoplanet hunters may find ET by glut of alien corpses

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Exoplanet hunters may find ET by glut of alien corpses

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Cosmic chemistry: Life's molecules are made in space

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Cosmic chemistry: Life's molecules are made in space

We used to think that the sort of chemistry that makes life could only happen on Earth. We were wrong

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How to sniff aliens' gas in exoplanet atmospheres

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Life

Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life

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Life

Cell scaffolding found in odd California meteorite

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Martian soup may have been tasty to early life

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