We thought aliens were making first contact, but it looks like Earth has been caught out by a case of phantom phone vibration on a cosmic scale.
The latest radio signal picked up by the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) community had some excited, but it turns out the signal came...
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After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some...
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Ever wonder why the red planet is red?
About 180 million years ago, a planet-shattering yet naturally occurring nuclear reaction may have wiped out everything on Mars, sending a shockwave that turned the planet into dry sand.
Even more incredible: A natural nuclear...
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NASA hails 'amazing' exoplanetary system
Six bodies huddled around distant yellow dwarf
NASA's Kepler space observatory has spotted an "amazing" exoplanetary system - six planets orbiting a sun-like star some 2,000 light-years from Earth.
Kepler-11 represents "the...
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Why Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?
If NASA put out the word that it was looking for volunteers to suit up for the first manned mission to Mars, the line outside Cape Canaveral might stretch from there to the moon.
But what if they said it was a nine-month trip on a cramped...
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