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exoplanets

A NASA telescope has found its first habitable Earth-sized planet

Space

A NASA telescope has found its first habitable Earth-sized planet

The TESS space telescope has found its first Earth-sized planet with conditions that might be right for life, orbiting a small star 100 light years away

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An artist’s visualisation of a planet orbiting star DMPP-2

Space

We've found six scorchingly hot exoplanets that are over 1100°C

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KW7C4W Exoplanet Exploration - Fantasy and Surreal Landscape. 3D Rendered.

Space

Pigeons and woolly hats now have exoplanets named after them

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CHEOPS artist's impression

Space

ESA is about to launch a space telescope to study how planets are made

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Inflatible green Aliens standing in line

Life

Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

Features

This artist's concept shows a hypothetical 'rejuvenated' planet,a gas giant that has reclaimed its youthful infrared glow. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found tentative evidence for one such planet around a dead star, or white dwarf, called PG 0010+280.

Space

We’ve discovered a planet orbiting an exploded star for the first time

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Exoplanet

Space

Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

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Artist's impression of a watery exoplanet

Space

Ocean worlds with a thick atmosphere may be better for life than Earth

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Strange exoplanet

Space

An unexpectedly enormous planet is orbiting a tiny star

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Illustration of a supermassive black hole

Space

Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star

Planets normally form gradually from the disk of dust around a star. But the same thing could happen around black holes, forming thousands of super heavy planets

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Space

Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

Culture

Space

This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far

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Space

We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas

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Space

We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow

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