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With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best candidates.

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If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

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SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

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Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

The former president's lighthearted comments on extraterrestrials made the news in recent days. He wasn't entirely wrong.

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