An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter's magnetic field. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick) The ...

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Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

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The controversies in Fairfax County, Virginia, and in Cook and Lake Counties, Illinois, are not merely another quarrel over ...

The White House rolled out a website at aliens.gov this week. Obviously, everyone thought this was about aliens. The website has green text on a black background and a full-blown space aesthetic. “For ...

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