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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch Close Encounter of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley

Culture

The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

Culture

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

Features

The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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Space

US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

Space

The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

Space

SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Space

Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

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Person looking up at starry night at Spiral Jetty, USA. Provider: Alamy Stock Photo Source: www.alamy.com Copyright: Celestine Dagli/Alamy

Physics

Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Space

Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, but telescopes on Earth failed to pick up any radio transmissions

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Life

Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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Life

New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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Chemistry

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins

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Mind

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is

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