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The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya

Life

Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling

An intriguing radio spike spotted last year could point toward an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation, but follow-up observations so far have come up empty

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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

Features

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

Features

A man wearing an orange boiler suit, hard hat and headtorch stands in the mine

Earth

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

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The control room on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer

Life

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

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Submersible underwater

Earth

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

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China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)

Space

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

The gigantic 500-metre disc will boost the search for extraterrestrial life, dark matter and distant pulsars

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Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

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Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

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Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

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