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The night sky above Paranal in Chile, where NGTS will be built. In the foreground is the Very Large Telescope. Photograph: Yuri Beletsky/Eu...

Viking 2 Lander image (dated Nov. 2, 1976) showing the rocks of Utopia Planitia in the background. NASA Mars Viking Robots 'Found Lif...

New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs -- monstrous creatures with the intellig...

Giant star IRC+10216. (Credit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/MESS Consortia) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2010) — ESA's Herschel infrared ...

Hawking has depicted what kinds of alien could be out there From Times Online: THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at l...

An artist's impression of a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star. (Credit: NASA-JPL / Caltech / T. Pyle (SSC)) From Science Dail...

Sulphur in silence (Image: NASA/SPL) From New Scientist: THE footprint of life on Mars may have been plain to see all along in the sulphurou...

We don't want anybody just turning a radio ­telescope on the sky and sending their own ­messages to the source.' Photograph: Felix C...

From New Scientist: Sixty years ago, space aliens were the preserve of lunatics and eccentrics, thanks to decades of sci-fi schlock, flying-...

The digital age is effectively gagging the Earth by cutting the transmission of TV and radio signals into space Photo: REX From The Telegr...

Advertising our existence (Image: Jess Alford/Getty) From New Scientist: The human race first deliberately advertised its existence on the o...

The Australia Telescope array near Narrabri, New South Wales, with Mercury, Venus, and the Moon all is the same stretch of sky. It's the...

Some scientists think we don't have to look past our own solar system to find a world that could support life. NASA/JPL-Caltech From Dis...

On the lookout for intelligent signals from the stars (Image: Louie Psihoyos/Corbis) From New Scientist: West Virginia. It is 6 am on an Apr...

This artist's conception shows a hypothetical gas giant planet with an Earth-like moon similar to the moon Pandora in the movie Avatar. ...

Astronomers have discovered four new planets Photo: NASA/AP From The Telegraph: Astronomers have discovered four new planets orbiting two...

Astronomers have found up to six new planets orbiting stars that resemble the sun, paving the way forward for the discovery of a truly extra...

This image shows concentrations of Methane discovered on Mars. (Credit: NASA) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Dec. 8, 2009) — Scientists ...

Photo: Silhouette of Very Large Array (VLA), which has contributed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In Arizona, a sc...

Image: The planet, called GJ758B, may well have a sister, GJ758C From The BBC: Astronomers have published an image of the coolest planet ou...