A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

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The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...