Mind
New Quiet Place movie adds to irrational fears over marauding aliens
Sci-fi depictions of extraterrestrial invasions can heighten anxiety about our efforts to make first contact, says METI president Douglas Vakoch
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Space
Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life
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Space
Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations
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Space
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
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Space
How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life’s origins
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Space
Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhospitable gas planet
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Space
Why we’re finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets
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Space
What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life
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Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus鈥檚 acid clouds
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Space
Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success
A proposed framework to assess and communicate the credibility of detections of extraterrestrial life is vital to deliver results we can all believe in
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Space
How the JUICE mission will look for habitability on Jupiter’s moons
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Aliens on low-oxygen worlds may never discover fire
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Life
How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens
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Space
Space germs: How can we avoid contaminating other worlds?
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