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Are we alone? From Trump’s push to release UFO files to new NASA missions, interest in alien life is back in the spotlight.

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

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An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

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