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

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...