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An alien planet orbits a star other than our sun, and is sometimes called an "exoplanet." Learn more about the types of alien planets, including exoplanets and extrasolar planets, and get the latest news.
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Scientists have discovered three super-Earths circling two different stars more than 1,000 light-years away.
All three may be capable of supporting life as we know it, scientists say.
A planetary system 1200 light years from Earth may contain two worlds entirely covered by global oceans. Kepler 62e and 62f are in the habitable zone of a roughly Sun-like star. Each planet is slightly larger than Earth.
NASA will announce new results from the Kepler space telescope in a news conference Thursday (April 18).
Researchers collected the chemical fingerprints of four warm, cloud-covered alien worlds that lie 128 light years away from Earth.
The company behind the contest fights back against some disapproving words from the IAU
This beautiful space wallpaper is an artist’s impression of an exoplanet seen from its moon. The diversity of exoplanets is large — more than 800 planets outside the Solar System have been found to date, with thousands more waiting to be confirmed.
Astronomers have caught a black hole snacking on what may be a free-flying giant planet.
One mission will hunt Earth-like alien planets, while the other will probe the secrets of neutron stars.
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted an ultradense dead star bending the light of its larger companion.
A panel of scientists discuss the issues facing the search for and understanding of planets orbiting far-distant stars in part one of an eight-part series.
Is our galaxy filled with life? Or is Earth a beautiful, lonely aberration? Astronomers are rapidly discovering planets orbiting other stars. Will any be worth exploring up close? Could humans – or whatever we become – live there someday?
This sizzling space wallpaper is an artist’s impression showing exoplanet HD 189733b as it passes in front of its parent star, called HD 189733A.
The space-funding company Uwingu wants a more exciting name for Alpha Centauri Bb.
All rocky exoplanets likely host oceans of liquid water shortly after they form, one prominent researcher says.
