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exoplanets

Nine probes reached the outer solar system: Where are they now?

Space

Nine probes reached the outer solar system: Where are they now?

Besides Cassini, eight missions have passed the asteroid belt – and several are still broadcasting from the furthest solar system and beyond

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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

Space

Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

Space

Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

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Kepler planetary disk

Space

‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

Space

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Tidal pool under a lilac sky

Life

Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

Space

We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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A possible view on an alien world: mountaintops poking through mist and two suns visible in the sky

Space

The exoplanet zoo – a whistle-stop tour

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Didier Queloz

Space

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

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planet orbit

Space

Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

Data from the Kepler space telescope show that exoplanets tend to be similar in size to their neighbours and regularly spaced, no matter the size of their star

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Space

Uranus's crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily

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Space

Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like

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Space

The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star

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Space

Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star

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