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Topic: alien life

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Does alien life smell like the sea?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Illustration of vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus, Saturns sixth largest moon, created on July 26, 2018. (Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Antarctic ice informs search for aliens

Elizabeth Howell
Planet Mars (Getty Images//Cobalt88)

We now know why Mars is so red

Matthew Rozsa
Geyser on Jupiter's moon Europa (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why icy alien oceans could harbor life

Matthew Rozsa
Solvent extractions of the Ryugu samples on a clean bench (ISO6, Class 100) inside a clean room (ISO5, Class 1000) performed by Hiroshi Naraoka at Kyushu University in Japan. (JAXA/NASA)

Asteroid bacteria not aliens after all

Matthew Rozsa
Martian landscape with lakes, water (Getty Images/gremlin)

Water on Mars found buried deep

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Odds for alien life on Europa drop

Matthew Rozsa
The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A new target in search for alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

"Building blocks of life" in asteroid

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An astrophysicist on alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
UFO flying toward Earth (Getty Images)

NASA convenes a UFO panel

Matthew Rozsa
Rover on Mars (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

When Mars went through climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's moon may have secret lakes

Matthew Rozsa
Mars Dust Storm (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Mars' tiny lightning storms

Matthew Rozsa
This undated handout photo provided by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute, shows the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Seth Shostak, SETI Institute)

Astronomer explains how to see aliens

Jason Wright - The Conversation
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: 'Oumuamua. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Bizarre space rock is not alien-made

Nicole Karlis
Bill Clinton (AP/Doug Mills/Getty/ursatii/Salon)

Bill Clinton's UFO obsession

William J. Birnes, Joel Martin
(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Former Navy pilot: "We may not be alone"

Charlie May
Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Nothing yet in the search for alien life

Ray Norris - The Conversation
Andromeda Galaxy (NASA)

Why we haven't found aliens

Joanna Rothkopf
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