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Are we alone? From Trump’s push to release UFO files to new NASA missions, interest in alien life is back in the spotlight.

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

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The headlines said we might have found alien life — but the reality is far more complicated. Scientists detected a possible biosignature on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet 124 light-years away, but the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...