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Scientists have peered through the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and discovered weather patterns "like something out of science fiction". For the first time ever, astronomers mapped ...

Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution. It's the Earth's atmosphere that he's usually ...

There's even a new probe that will hunt for as many as 25 habitable alien worlds ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that ...

The exoplanet, called K2-18b, contains huge quantities of dimethyl sulphide - a chemical only produced by living organisms. The planet is 124 light-years from Earth - so it would take us hundreds of ...