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The telescopes of the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory gaze out into the stunning night sky over the Atacama desert in Chile

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Two potentially habitable super-Earth planets have been discovered

A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem likely to be in the habitable zone and one of them could be the second most habitable exoplanet discovered so far

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Artist’s impression of a BEASTie. The image shows a gas giant planet (like Jupiter) on a distant orbit around a blue, massive star. The planet is likely to have been captured or stolen from another star. The background stars are members of the same star-forming region and could be the star the BEASTie was born around.

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Weird, enormous planets may be stolen from stars in 'planetary heists'

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Exoplanet

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First exoplanet picture from James Webb Space Telescope revealed

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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Illustration of the exoplanet LHS 3844 b

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JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets' surfaces are made of

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Rogue planet

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Rogue planets with weird atmospheres and no star could host life

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KRB4DP This is an artist's impression of the view from the vicinity of a hypothetical terrestrial planet and moon orbiting the red dwarf star AU Microscopii. The relatively newborn 12 million year-old star is surrounded by a very dusty disk of debris from the collision of comets, asteroids, and planetissimals swirling around the young star. Though no planets have been discovered around the star, the disk is strong circumstantial evidence for planets. Not only is it dusty, but also it is warped, possibly by the pull of one or more planets. In this view the glow of starlight reflecting off the disk cre

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Mysterious cold blobs may be hiding inside a distant star

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HRJM18 Exoplanet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb

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One in every 50 planets may have been stolen from other stars

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Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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Planets

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Aliens could say hello by arranging planets in prime number pattern

A sufficiently advanced alien civilisation would be able to arrange the orbits of the planets in its star system in a pattern that could never form naturally, signaling its existence to others

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Search starlight to help astronomers discover new exoplanets

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Exocomets are probably born the same way as comets in our solar system

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Exoplanet sighting shows how gas giants can form far from their stars

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Astronomers still can't agree on what counts as a planet

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