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Artist's impression of a gas giant planet and its moon

Space

We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas

Astronomers have spotted a plume of sodium near a distant planet. The gas is so far from the surface that they say it must have come from a volcanic exomoon

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Glowing organisms

Space

We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow

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How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

Technology

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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planets orbiting a star

Space

Two planets orbiting a nearby star could have oceans and maybe life

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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Space

Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

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Earth

Space

Earth could have more water than we thought while exoplanets have less

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Starfield

Space

The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled

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alien planet with three suns

Space

Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life

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Mercury

Space

How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

Features

image of exoplanet

Space

We may be witnessing the birth of an exomoon around a distant world

A planet 370 light years away appears to be surrounded by a disc of dust the like of which we’ve never seen before. It may eventually turn into rings or moons

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Space

Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find

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Space

Our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet

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Space

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

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Space

A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system

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