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Latest News About Alien Planets
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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But the more scientists learn, the more questions they have about these strange new worlds.
The list of possible uses is pretty long at this point.
Many different types of exoplanets could potentially support life, MIT's Sara Seager says.
The mission of the Kepler Space Telescope is to identify and characterize Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars.
A brief rundown of the main techniques scientists use to find far-flung worlds.
The effort aims to start giving popular names to the hundreds of planets known beyond our solar system.
The prolific instrument may soon lose its ability to lock precisely onto target stars.
The half-frozen, half-oceanic worlds might be good places to look for alien life.
The name won a contest organized by space-funding company Uwingu.
Astronomers hope the iconic telescope lasts through 2020.
It's time to get the ball rolling toward studying exoplanet atmospheres.
If Kepler-62e and f are covered by global oceans, they may host a variety of aquatic lifeforms.
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered three new possibly habitable super-Earth planets.
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.
