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artist's concept of plumes on Europa

Space

One of Europa’s plumes may not exist, making hunt for life hard

Jupiter’s icy moon is a promising place to find alien microbes, but hopes that they could be blasted into space by watery plumes may have diminished

News

Kepler planetary disk

Space

‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

News

Futuristic city

Space

Science fiction picks: Time for a reality check

Culture

Titan

Space

Building blocks of alien cells found on Saturn’s largest moon

News

Foggy background forest with outline of child in the foreground

Physics

Aliens slumbering for billions of years are out there – really?

Comment

Mars rover wheel tracks

Life

The best way to detect aliens may be by finding their footprints

News

A possible view on an alien world: mountaintops poking through mist and two suns visible in the sky

Space

The exoplanet zoo – a whistle-stop tour

Features

surface of Mars

Life

The ethics issue: Should we colonise other planets?

Features

Very Large Array radio telescope

Space

Messages from fake aliens decoded quickly in online SETI contest

News

Mars strata

Life

Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake

Curiosity’s inspection of a Martian lakebed reveals multiple environments where microbes could have thrived more than 3 billion years ago

News

Space

Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

News

Life

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Features

Space

Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped

News

Life

We still haven’t heard from aliens - here’s why we might never

News