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A screen shot from Abel Méndez's lab note titled "Strange Signals from the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128."

Astronomers try to decipher ‘peculiar signals’ from nearby star Ross 128

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The mystery has gripped the internet as speculation mounts about the potential for a discovery of alien life on the red dwarf star known as Ross 128 — despite the best attempts of astronomers to put such rumors to rest.

An artist’s rendering of the surface of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1.

The scientific community is still buzzing about discovery of seven Earth-sized exoplanets

Science
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