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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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Astronomers announce 32 new exoplanets, including several new low-mass ones.
Modeling study shows pebbles condense, rain from rocky exoplanet's atmosphere.
Although the main payload onboard the Kepler spacecraft consists of instruments to detect other worlds, a second package reminds anyone who may intercept the craft millennia from now of the hopes of the generation that launched it.
What Hubble and its handlers will be observing over the coming year.
One of the smallest exoplanets yet discovered has just been confirmed as a rocky world, scientists announced.
Models show Kepler technology capable of detecting moons orbiting exoplanets.
Newfound hot Jupiter exoplanet could be spiraling in towards its sun, about to die.
The star and its planet, WASP-17, are about 1,000 light-years away.
NASA's Kepler Telescope is engaged in the ultimate staring contest.
NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler is in good shape to begin discovering Earth-like planets, according to its first science results, released today.
An in-depth look at astronomer Bill Borucki, principal investigator of NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission.
With its cryogen depleted, Spitzer telescope prepares for its warm mission.
Disk of gas and dust found around nearby, young binary star system.
Scientists have devised a way to spot water on distant planets that can only barely be seen now.
Long-awaited discovery of exoplanet with astrometry method made around smallest known star.
New instruments such as NASA's Kepler space telescope may soon reveal whether Earth-like worlds are common.
New research suggests we could detect a potential beacon from a planet full of microbes.
Optical observations show night and day sides of tidally locked exoplanet.
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