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exoplanets

Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

We assumed habitable planets couldn't exist in solar systems where gas giants ricochet around. So why do we keep finding them?

Features

superhabitable AW

Life

There might be a planet better than Earth – right next door

Features

Illustration of a planet losing its atmosphere

Space

Stars burn away the atmospheres of close-in super-Earths

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Artist's impression of trappist-1 exoplanet system

Space

New exoplanet trio may have been dried out by fiery young star

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Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life

Space

Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life

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NASA recovers prized Kepler space telescope after emergency

Space

NASA recovers prized Kepler space telescope after emergency

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The Pleiades star cluster: it might have been the sun's nursery

Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

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A desert, with a few stones and dry branches in the foreground and a very bright sun shining in a clear, dark blue sky

Earth

Planets with too much carbon dioxide could lose oceans to space

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Space

How Do You Find an Exoplanet? An insider account gives top tips

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Space

Lonely exoplanet orbits its star at greatest distance yet seen

A closer look at the motions of a small star and a misfit planet shows the two are linked by gravity - and can teach us about planets and stars alike

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Earth

How Planet Nine may have been exiled to solar system's edge

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Life

Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets

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Space

Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists

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Space

Coming soon: first weather report from super-Venus exoplanet

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