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Where are all the aliens? We've yet to find life outside of that on Earth, but that doesn't mean scientists aren't looking. In fact, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is going strong, and ...

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Astronomers have catalogued more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. None has settled the question that matters: is ...

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Scientists searching for alien signals may have stumbled upon a rapidly spinning dead star near the Milky Way’s center, but ...

It’s a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...