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Magnetic field necessary for life may have been discovered on alien world for first time

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...
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NASA-backed coating for space shield roughly 250x thinner than a human hair could help detect alien life

The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.

Cut the Alien Jokes, These Mysterious Spheres Are Likely Space Debris

The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...
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They tested 20 molecules in the air of a planet 124 light years away and thought one was the smell of an alien ocean, until other teams reran the data and 87 percent of t…

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...

How an interstellar comet sheds light on universe's 'cosmic noon'

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft discovered a “super-Jupiter” with a new method.

By looking through data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), researchers uncovered a planet through ...
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NASA’s exoplanet mission accidentally discovers a world it was never meant to find

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Alien life on nearby 'super Earth' much likelier than we thought, study claims

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...
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Telescope Uses Ripples in Space-Time to Detect a Huge Planet for the First Time

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

We Could Seed Alien Life Elsewhere in the Universe—But We’ll Never Undo the Devastating Consequences, Scientists Caution

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead Trump administration UFO council

The Pentagon just released what they're calling never before seen UFO files, including videos, images, and original documents ...