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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

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

News

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

Space

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

News

Artist's impression of an alien world

Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

News

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

Life

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

Comment

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

News

A landscape with a distant person looking up at the night sky where the Milky Way is visible

Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

News

Map of Mars's methane

Life

Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

News

Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

Features

superhabitable AW

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth – right next door

There should be worlds out there so balmy they make Earth look stale, and there are signs of one just four light years away. That's close enough to visit...

Features

Life

SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens

News

Life

Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?

Features

Life

Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets

News

Space

Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all

News