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By Keith Cooper Published
Between biosignatures and technosignatures lie noosignatures, and some scientists think they could help us find alien life someday.

By Kiona N. Smith Published
For a world to maintain an atmosphere long enough for life to gain a foothold, it seems it needs to be at least as big as Mars.

By Keith Cooper Published
New research suggests AI can be repeatedly fooled into mistaking non-life for life.

By Leonard David Published
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study UFOs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, as they're now known.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

By Samantha Mathewson Published
A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.

By Kiona N. Smith Published
Earth may have gotten some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system, but not without assistance from Jupiter.

By Paul Sutter Published
A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancient Earth.

By Keith Cooper Published
If and when SETI discovers alien life, then a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees that once the discovery has been verified, its disclosure will come soon thereafter.

By Mike Wall Published
Scientists failed to find radio signals emanating from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, further bolstering its status as a natural object, not one made by aliens.
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