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Navy Pilot Was 'Pretty Weirded Out' by Encounter with Unidentified Object in 2004
December 19, 2017 | ArticleThe Defense Department had a secret program to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects – and former military participants in the program say they had a stunning encounter with one back in 2004.
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New Data From Mars Further Dampens Prospects for Life Around Red Dwarf Stars
December 18, 2017 | ArticleHabitability on planets orbiting a star that is cooler and dimmer than our sun appears to be much less likely than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from a NASA orbiter on Mars.
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Do You Want to Believe? Government UFO Search Never Stopped
December 18, 2017 | ArticleThe U.S. government has been secretly investigating unidentified flying objects — UFOs — since 2007. And despite officials' claims that the classified UFO-hunting effort shuttered in 2012 after funding evaporated, the group is still active.
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The Search for Life on Mars Should Go Underground, Scientists Say
December 18, 2017 | ArticleThe search for signs of life on Mars should focus on ancient subsurface environments, not lake-bed deposits like the one famously discovered by NASA's Curiosity rover, a new study argues.
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Life on Mars: Exploration & Evidence
December 14, 2017 | ReferenceMissions to Mars have searched, but haven't found definite proof of life past or present.
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Interstellar Visitor Stays Silent: No Signs of Life Yet on 'Oumuamua
December 14, 2017 | ArticleAn initial search for artificial signals coming from 'Oumuamua, the needle-shaped interloper that zoomed past Earth two months ago, has come up empty, scientists with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project announced today (Dec. 14).
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Breakthrough Listen Is Eavesdropping on Strange Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua
December 11, 2017 | ArticleAlien-hunting scientists are lending a (telescopic) ear to 'Oumuamua, a mysterious object recently spotted speeding through the solar system.
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The Exoplanet Most Likely to Support Alien Life Might Not Be Habitable After All
December 10, 2017 | ArticleA pair of studies is calling into question the assumptions scientists make when determining if a planet outside of our solar system could support life.
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Rocky and Habitable? 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet May Be Much Like Our Own
December 07, 2017 | ArticleA possibly habitable alien world may be rocky like Earth — and it has a neighbor, a new study reports.
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Boost for Odds of Life? Jupiter Moon Europa May Have Plate Tectonics
December 05, 2017 | ArticleJupiter's icy moon Europa may have plate tectonics, potentially making the ocean-harboring world more habitable than scientists had thought.
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