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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

A new study says Hubble's successor could spot alien life on three new exoplanets. Should NASA be doing more? Or is it right to focus on other priorities?

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Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

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Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

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carbon nanotubes

Technology

Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground

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Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

Space

Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

Space

Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

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Idle Motion's <i>Voyager</i> struggles to clear the tower

Space

Idle Motion's Voyager struggles to clear the tower

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Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel

Space

Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel

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Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

Space

Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

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India's reusable space plane takes its first test flight

Space

India's reusable space plane takes its first test flight

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Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

Space

Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

Observations of a supposed comet that skirts close to the sun reveal it doesn't really act like one – so may be a different kind of space rock altogether

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Space

Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system

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Space

Kepler doubles exoplanet population with 1284 new planets

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Space

SpaceX Mars mission is a chance to hunt for life on the planet

Insight

Space

SpaceX says it will fly to Mars in 2018 – what are its chances?

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