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exoplanets

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

Technology

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

Exoplanets are abundant near the galaxy's smallest stars. Observing M dwarfs could teach us more about the worlds beyond our solar system, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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planets orbiting a star

Space

Two planets orbiting a nearby star could have oceans and maybe life

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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Space

Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

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Earth

Space

Earth could have more water than we thought while exoplanets have less

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Starfield

Space

The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled

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alien planet with three suns

Space

Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life

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Mercury

Space

How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

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image of exoplanet

Space

We may be witnessing the birth of an exomoon around a distant world

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Kepler 1625

Space

Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find

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Proxima b

Space

Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the solar system, and it may be home to a frigid planet six times the size of Earth in addition to the possibly habitable Proxima b

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Space

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

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Space

A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system

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Space

We’ve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life

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Space

Signal of first known exomoon may actually be from Jupiter-like planet

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