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As We Collect Samples Of Other Worlds, Is The Moon The Best Place To Store Them To Avoid Earth Contamination?artist impression of a moonbase with solar panels, biospheres, and buried labs.

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As We Collect Samples Of Other Worlds, Is The Moon The Best Place To Store Them To Avoid Earth Contamination?artist impression of a moonbase with solar panels, biospheres, and buried labs.
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As We Collect Samples Of Other Worlds, Is The Moon The Best Place To Store Them To Avoid Earth Contamination?

clock-iconJune 18, 2026

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Global "Post-Detection Protocols" For Disclosing Alien Life Just Got Their First Major Update In 16 YearsSatellite antenna at a ground station.

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Global "Post-Detection Protocols" For Disclosing Alien Life Just Got Their First Major Update In 16 YearsSatellite antenna at a ground station.
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Global "Post-Detection Protocols" For Disclosing Alien Life Just Got Their First Major Update In 16 Years

clock-iconJune 8, 2026
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Evidence Earth’s Closest Exoplanets Have Enormous Magnetic Fields Revives Prospects For Life On Proxima bThe whispy clouds in this artist's impression of Proxima Centauri were dismissed as almost impossible for nine years, but now might be plausible after all.

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Evidence Earth’s Closest Exoplanets Have Enormous Magnetic Fields Revives Prospects For Life On Proxima bThe whispy clouds in this artist's impression of Proxima Centauri were dismissed as almost impossible for nine years, but now might be plausible after all.
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Evidence Earth’s Closest Exoplanets Have Enormous Magnetic Fields Revives Prospects For Life On Proxima b

clock-iconJune 4, 2026
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These Are The 45 Most Likely Candidates For Habitable ExoplanetsAn artist’s impression of a planetary system around a slightly hotter star than our Sun.

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These Are The 45 Most Likely Candidates For Habitable ExoplanetsAn artist’s impression of a planetary system around a slightly hotter star than our Sun.
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These Are The 45 Most Likely Candidates For Habitable Exoplanets

clock-iconMarch 20, 2026

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"Super-Earth" Orbiting Star GL 887 Is Second-Closest Habitable Zone Exoplanet With Unusually Good Prospects For LifeIllustration of Gliese 887, a large red giant star with small spots on its surface, next to two planets orbiting it

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"Super-Earth" Orbiting Star GL 887 Is Second-Closest Habitable Zone Exoplanet With Unusually Good Prospects For LifeIllustration of Gliese 887, a large red giant star with small spots on its surface, next to two planets orbiting it
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"Super-Earth" Orbiting Star GL 887 Is Second-Closest Habitable Zone Exoplanet With Unusually Good Prospects For Life

clock-iconMarch 16, 2026

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NASA Responds Brilliantly To President Trump's Latest Talk Of UFOs, UAPs, And AliensNasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.

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NASA Responds Brilliantly To President Trump's Latest Talk Of UFOs, UAPs, And AliensNasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
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NASA Responds Brilliantly To President Trump's Latest Talk Of UFOs, UAPs, And Aliens

clock-iconFebruary 23, 2026
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Curiosity May Have Just Found Second-Best Proof That Mars Once Had LifeWhile most attention is on Perseverance, Curiosity may have found powerful evidence for ancient life on Mars, which it probably thought justified a selfie.

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Curiosity May Have Just Found Second-Best Proof That Mars Once Had LifeWhile most attention is on Perseverance, Curiosity may have found powerful evidence for ancient life on Mars, which it probably thought justified a selfie.
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Curiosity May Have Just Found Second-Best Proof That Mars Once Had Life

clock-iconFebruary 9, 2026
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The Key To A Universal Interplanetary Language Might Be Hiding In The Brains Of Beesbees swarming on the wooden frame of a yellow hive

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The Key To A Universal Interplanetary Language Might Be Hiding In The Brains Of Beesbees swarming on the wooden frame of a yellow hive
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The Key To A Universal Interplanetary Language Might Be Hiding In The Brains Of Bees

clock-iconJanuary 16, 2026
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What Is A Superhabitable Planet And Have We Found Any?A superhabitable world might look like this, with a mix of continents and ocean, with the land red from plants that harvest longer radiation light.

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What Is A Superhabitable Planet And Have We Found Any?A superhabitable world might look like this, with a mix of continents and ocean, with the land red from plants that harvest longer radiation light.
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What Is A Superhabitable Planet And Have We Found Any?

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Proof Of Complex Organic Molecules In Enceladus’s Ocean: “You Have Everything You Need To Form Life”A contrasted view of the south pole of enceladus with the geyser catching sunlight making them clearly visible.

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Proof Of Complex Organic Molecules In Enceladus’s Ocean: “You Have Everything You Need To Form Life”A contrasted view of the south pole of enceladus with the geyser catching sunlight making them clearly visible.
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Proof Of Complex Organic Molecules In Enceladus’s Ocean: “You Have Everything You Need To Form Life”

clock-iconOctober 1, 2025
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Alien Life Could Be Found By Simply Changing The Shape Of Telescopesthe telescope main mirror is long and thing and its secondary is located at the end on a triangular shaped heat shield.

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Alien Life Could Be Found By Simply Changing The Shape Of Telescopesthe telescope main mirror is long and thing and its secondary is located at the end on a triangular shaped heat shield.
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Alien Life Could Be Found By Simply Changing The Shape Of Telescopes

clock-iconSeptember 1, 2025
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Tennis Player Gets Public Confused With Autograph About The Fermi Paradox3d rendering of pink UFO carrying tennis ball, flying against amber background with tennis racket in foregroun

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Tennis Player Gets Public Confused With Autograph About The Fermi Paradox3d rendering of pink UFO carrying tennis ball, flying against amber background with tennis racket in foregroun
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Tennis Player Gets Public Confused With Autograph About The Fermi Paradox

clock-iconAugust 15, 2025
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There Is Now An Easy Way To Look For Living Organisms On Marsa crater with slopey channels and dark lines across the rocky landscape of mars.

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There Is Now An Easy Way To Look For Living Organisms On Marsa crater with slopey channels and dark lines across the rocky landscape of mars.
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There Is Now An Easy Way To Look For Living Organisms On Mars

clock-iconAugust 13, 2025
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What Astrobiology Might Tell Us About What Aliens May Look LikeHoax alien mummy

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What Astrobiology Might Tell Us About What Aliens May Look LikeHoax alien mummy
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What Astrobiology Might Tell Us About What Aliens May Look Like

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No Life But Lots Of Water – Latest Observations From Controversial Planet K2-18bThis Illustration shows the super-earth exoplanet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is known to host both water and temperatures that could support life.

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No Life But Lots Of Water – Latest Observations From Controversial Planet K2-18bThis Illustration shows the super-earth exoplanet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is known to host both water and temperatures that could support life.
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No Life But Lots Of Water – Latest Observations From Controversial Planet K2-18b

clock-iconJuly 30, 2025
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