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The president in February directed the Department of Defense to begin reviewing government files related to extraterrestrial ...

A new study suggests alien life may be easier to detect through clusters of similar planets rather than single biosignatures.

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A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...