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It's one of life's biggest questions – are we alone in the universe? Now, in good news for sci–fi fans, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are ...

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. From ancient myths about gods descending from the heavens to 20th-century UFO sightings and ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.