Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger says the first things you notice when you enter her biology lab at Cornell ...

The hunt for aliens has typically been limited to nearby and distant planets, but new research throws that wide open. An international team of scientists have suggested that a "unique" form of life ...

Scientists have been puzzled by the lack of any indication of intelligent life in three decades of search using radio telescopes. Nasa What should the message from Earth be for extra-terrestrial ...

Are we alone in the universe? The director of the Carl Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos takes us on an eye-opening tour of some of the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our world view ...

We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees. It's taken more than four ...

14:36, Tue, Nov 21, 2017 Updated: 15:38, Tue, Nov 21, 2017 About 3.8 billion years ago existence first sprang up but scientists have been unable to figure out how it started. However, the mystery may ...

This “most ambitious book yet” by the former BBC science correspondent takes us on a journey through the evolving cosmos to consider how human survival might depend on communicating with intelligent ...

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock has been blown off course by cancelled trains. She has finally arrived at the Royal Institution in London to rehearse her Christmas Lectures on the furthest reaches of the ...

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