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Proxima Centauri shoots out humongous flare, with big implications for alien life
By Harry Baker published
Scientists have detected the largest stellar flare ever recorded from Proxima Centauri. The finding changes what we know about stellar flares and the potential for alien life around red dwarfs.
How to spot aliens? Look at Earth, scientists propose.
By Mindy Weisberger published
Revisiting how Earth looks from space could offer scientists clues for finding alien life on distant worlds.
This strange lava-rich alien planet is making itself a new atmosphere
By Meghan Bartels published
Scientists think they've spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one.
Extraterrestrial evidence: 10 incredible findings about aliens from 2020
By Adam Mann published
Are we alone in the universe? Many discoveries about aliens in 2020 seemed to increase the prospect of extraterrestrial entities existing.
Scientists think they've detected radio emissions from an alien world
By Meghan Bartels published
Scientists may have detected radio emissions from a planet orbiting a star beyond our sun for the first time.
'Planet Nine' cousin found
By Stephanie Pappas published
An enormous exoplanet found circling a double star 336 light-years away may provide clues to a mystery closer to home: Planet Nine.
Massive supercontinent will form hundreds of millions of years from now
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists are modeling when Earth's next supercontinent phase will begin, and how that could affect global climate.
This bizarre planet could have supersonic winds in an atmosphere of vaporized rock
By Meghan Bartels published
Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is closest to its star.
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