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12 March 2015updated 07 Sep 2021 11:20am

Stephen Hawking launches $100 mission to find alien life – but is it just a waste of money?

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner plans to personally provide $100 million for the search of alien life on Earth-like planets. Are the chances of alien life too science fiction? 

By Tosin Thompson

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