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Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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New ��ý recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

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SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Space

Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds could be a useful indicator

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Physics

Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Space

Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

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Life

Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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Life

New ��ý recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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