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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 epic find should change the way humanity views its place in the universe.
A brief rundown of some of the year's record-breaking astronomical finds.
In a few billion years, Earth will be sterilized by a bloated, red giant sun.
The newly detected planet is one of five found circling the star Tau Ceti, which sits 12 light-years away.
Space artist Cook says a few words about some of her favorite exoplanet pieces.
Cook explains how she visualizes newfound worlds too distant to see with current instruments.
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog has seven candidate planets listed so far, and the pace of discovery is increasing, says its founder.
The European Southern Observatory's observations in the last five decades altered our ideas of how the universe is put together.
Dust particles are glomming together around the star UX Tauri A to form future planets.
The shifting habitable zones of such stars present too big a hurdle for life to leap.
The newfound alien planet Kappa Andromedae b 13 times the mass of Jupiter.
This exoplanet is 13 times the mass of Jupiter and is a good test case for planet formation, scientists say.
The Kepler mission should run through at least 2016.
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.
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