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Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

Space

Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

The 500-metre-wide radio telescope in rural China will let us study galaxies, pulsars and potential alien signals that would be too faint for any other scope

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Comb jelly

Earth

Global treaty set to halt invasive species ravaging our oceans

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An alien spaceship over a city

Life

Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens

Analysis

Russian telescope

Life

Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

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The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya

Life

Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling

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illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

Space

Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

Analysis

A Gonatus squid eating another squid

Life

Deep-sea squid cannibals battle it out in a fight to the death

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Life

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

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More than 60 per cent of coral reef in Maldives hit by bleaching

Earth

More than 60 per cent of coral reef in Maldives hit by bleaching

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Robert Byer

Space

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

Detecting gravitational waves is just the start, says Robert Byer: the next stops are giant space telescopes, satellite launchers and nuclear fusion power

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Earth

Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earth’s surface

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Life

Never-before-seen sea creatures filmed in world’s deepest abyss

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Earth

Deep-sea alliance set to probe Earth’s final frontier

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Space

China builds world’s largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens

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