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SEVERAL EARTH-LIKE PLANETS DISCOVERED ORBITING NEARBY STAR
Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... READ MORE›
KIC 8462852 STAR ANOMALY GETS ET EXPERTS' ATTENTION
Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago... READ MORE›
NEW PLANET DISCOVERED BY 15-YEAR-OLD INTERN
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
SCIENTIST WARNS WORLD TO 'THINK TWICE BEFORE REPLYING TO ALIEN SIGNALS FROM OUTER SPACE'
A scientist responsible for finding signs of life on other planets has warned that human beings should probably think twice before making contact with aliens... READ MORE›
NASA KEPLER-452B 'EARTH 2.0' DISCOVERY BRINGS US CLOSER TO DISCOVERING ALIEN LIFE
So Kepler could in theory support plant life, but what about alien life?... READ MORE›
NASA DISCOVERS 'TATOOINE' PLANET ORBITING TWO SUNS
The discovery was made by astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and San Diego State University using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope... READ MORE›
PLAN TO BROADCAST MESSAGES TO ALIEN WORLDS LEAVES COSMOLOGISTS WORRYING
Dr Vokoch said With recent detection of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars, we have natural targets for such transmission projects... READ MORE›
LIFE ON JUPITER'S MOONS? JUICE MAY HOLD THE KEY
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE›
15-YEAR-OLD DISCOVERS NEW PLANET ON WORK EXPERIENCE
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
'STRONG SIGNAL' FROM SUN-LIKE STAR SPARKS ALIEN SPECULATION
Hide Caption 11 of 14 Photos Where life might live beyond Earth The planet Kepler-69c is about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus... READ MORE›
ASTRONAT CHRIS HADFIELD SAYS WE'RE 'ON THE CUSP' OF DISCOVERING ALIEN LIFE
Munroe in particular pointed out the astonishing pace at which the Kepler program is discovering new planets... READ MORE›
ALIEN LIFE ON JUPITER INVESTIGATED AS ESA LAUNCHES WORK ON JUICE SPACECRAFT
The search should take three years with the spacecraft examining the giant planet and its icy moons including Ganymede Europa and Callisto... READ MORE›
CONTEST BEGINS TO ALLOW THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO NAME EXOPLANETS AND STARS
Name the ExoWorlds Contest begins to allow the public to name exoplanets and stars... READ MORE›
EUROPE APPROVES DEEP-SPACE 'PLATO' PROJECT TO HUNT FOR ALIEN LIFE
Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host... READ MORE›
NASA SCOPE SPOTS CLOSEST MATCH YET TO EARTH-SUN TWIN SYSTEM
That close-to-Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f, also was in the habitable zone of its star... READ MORE›
'ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE' SOLAR SYSTEM SPOTTED BY KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE MOST LIKELY A STAR SWARMED BY COMETS SAY NASA
Bringing in reinforcements, the team at Kepler recruited the powerful Spitzer Space telescope which can view distant objects using infrared light... READ MORE›
MYSTERY STAR EXCITES ALIEN-WATCHERS, BUT NASA URGES CAUTION ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL 'MEGASTRUCTURES' THEORY
Space agency scientist working on the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission which launched in 2009 but lost its key orientation abilities in 2013... READ MORE›
NASA SHINES LIGHT ON 'PITCH BLACK' PLANET, A SCORCHING HOT WORLD
The low albedo shows we still have a lot to learn about WASP-12b and other similar exoplanets, Bell said... READ MORE›
EUROPE IS SPENDING A FORTUNE TO LOOK FOR ALIENS
The program was green-lit Tuesday by a committee of the European Space Agency, an intergovernmental agency dedicated to the exploration of space... READ MORE›
ASTRONOMERS ANNOUNCE A NEW DISCOVERY THAT COULD HELP US FIND ALIENS
According to a team from the University of Vienna, this latest advance helps scientists better determine whether distant stars could be harbouring life... READ MORE›
HERE'S HOW WE COULD HIDE EARTH FROM ALIENS IF WE HAD TO
It's possible what we see as we scan the universe for other habitable planets has been engineered to disguise or highlight the existence of other civilizations... READ MORE›
NASA'S KEPLER TELESCOPE FINDS 10 MORE GOLDILOCKS-ZONE PLANETS, SUGGESTING LIFE IS OUT THERE
Between Kepler and other methods, scientists have now confirmed more than 3,600 exoplanets and found about 62 potentially habitable planets ... READ MORE›
THREE SUPER-EARTHS FOUND HIDING IN CASSIOPEIA 'JUST' 21 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
PARIS - Astronomers said Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-Earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star... READ MORE›
A JUPITER-LIKE ALIEN WORLD ORBITING TWO SUN-LIKE STARS IS THE LARGEST EVER SPOTTED IN A TWO-STAR SYSTEM
Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the previously known circumbinary planets... READ MORE›
WHAT WORLDS ARE OUT THERE? A FIELD GUIDE TO EXOPLANETS
Super-Earth Super-Earths are planets that are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune... READ MORE›
NASA HAS DISCOVERED A RECORD-BREAKING 1,284 NEW PLANETS
NASA's Kepler telescope made the historic discoveries, nine of which are thought to be rocky planets like Earth... READ MORE›
TRIPLE SUNRISE, SUNSETS FOR FARAWAY PLANET WITH THREE STARS IN 550-YEAR ORBIT
It also is one of the few extrasolar planets -- those outside our solar system -- to be directly imaged by telescope... READ MORE›
DWARF STAR MERE 40 LIGHT YEARS AWAY MAY HAVE HABITABLE PLANETS
Building and using the Trappist infrared telescope to hunt for planets was a risky strategy... READ MORE›
NASA'S KEPLER SCOPE SPOTS 1,284 NEW PLANETS, UPPING THOSE IN 'GOLDILOCKS ZONE' TO 21
Before the Kepler space telescope launched, we did not know whether exoplanets were rare or common in the galaxy... READ MORE›
KEPLER-1647 B, A POTENTIALLY HABITABLE EXOPLANET, DISCOVERED BY NASA ASTRONOMERS
But finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars, co-author William Welsh, an SDSU astronomer, said... READ MORE›