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exoplanets

Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

Space

Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

Astronomers looking at two stars 800 light years away say they may have found the first comets beyond our solar system

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Kepler planetary disk

Space

‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

Space

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Tidal pool under a lilac sky

Life

Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

Space

We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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A possible view on an alien world: mountaintops poking through mist and two suns visible in the sky

Space

The exoplanet zoo – a whistle-stop tour

Features

Didier Queloz

Space

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

Features

planet orbit

Space

Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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False-colour infrared image of Uranus

Space

Uranus's crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily

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telescope

Space

Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like

NASA’s Kepler team has released its latest batch of planet candidates and they fall into two kinds: ones like Earth and those like mini-Neptunes

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Space

The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star

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Space

Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star

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Space

Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphere

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Space

Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons

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