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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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The massive exoplanet is just 100 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers have discovered a “rogue planet” (no, NOT Nibiru!) that seems to be travelling with a set of young stars – called the AB Doradus Moving Group – but isn’t orbiting any of them. If it’s part of that family, scientists can gauge its age.
This amazing space wallpaper reveals IC 5148, which is a beautiful planetary nebula located some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Grus (The Crane).
This stunning space wallpaper is an artist's impression of a transiting Jupiter-mass exoplanet around a star slightly more massive than the Sun, such as the one discovered around SWEEPS-04.
The newly detected alien world lies just 42 light-years from Earth.
The planet HD 40307g, 44 light-years away, is seven times the Earth's mass and could have liquid water on its surface.
A newly discovered “super-Earth” planet, HD 40307g, is in the “Goldilocks Zone;” just the right place to support liquid water. It resides in a system of six worlds orbiting a, stable, elderly dwarf star 44 light years away.
Asteroid belts like the one between Mars and Jupiter appear to be rare beyond our solar system.
Here's a brief rundown of the spookiest things in space, from vampire stars to zombie planets.
This artist's concept space wallpaper depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system -- so compact, in fact, that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets.
Fomalhaut b exists after all, according to a new study.
In 2008, astronomers thought they'd found a planet orbiting Fomalhaut b, 25 light-years away in in the Piscis. But further studies discredited the find. Now, a reanalysis of Hubble observations has confirmed the detection.
HARPS works by looking for telltale "wobbles" in a star, caused by an orbiting planet gravitationally tugging on the star.
Thirsty for more information on the hunt for habitable planets outside our solar system? Exoplanet app offers features for space enthusiasts and scientists alike.
The recent discovery of an Earth-size world in the next star system over could help get the ball rolling.
The newly discovered Earth-size planet is alluring, but San Franciscans are wary about interstellar travel.
Here's a look at how alien planet Alpha Centauri Bb stacks up by the numbers.
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting one of the nearest stars to our sun: Alpha Centauri B.
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