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NEARBY EARTH-LIKE PLANET COULD SUPPORT ALIEN LIFE


Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected outside the solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to planet Earth... READ MORE

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EARTH-SIZE PLANET ONLY 11 LIGHT YEARS AWAY ORBITS ITS COOL STAR IN 10 DAYS, HAS HABITABLE TEMPERATURE


At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to ours... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 16

POTENTIALLY HABITABLE WORLD FOUND JUST 11 LIGHT YEARS AWAY


It shows that Ross 128 b is more massive than the Earth, with at least 1.35 times our planet's bulk... READ MORE

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ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER A GIANT WORLD BUT IS IT A PLANET?


At 13 Jupiter masses, this newly discovered objects sits right at the boundary between planet and brown dwarf... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 2618

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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

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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

8th November, 2015 6527

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

8th November, 2015 6240

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

25th July, 2015 2115

EXPLODING STAR'S SHOCKWAVE WITNESSED


Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE

25th March, 2016 1829

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

15th June, 2016 1497

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

12th February, 2015 1207

LIFE ON JUPITER'S MOONS? JUICE MAY HOLD THE KEY


Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE

5th November, 2015 1149

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

12th June, 2015 762

HOT JUPITER-LIKE PLANET IS MOST EXTREME ALIEN WORLD EVER DISCOVERED


Either way it's not a happy ending for the planet, Professor Gaudi pointed out... READ MORE

5th June, 2017 326

'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

30th August, 2016 293

ET RING BACK RUSSIAN TELESCOPE PICKS UP MYSTERIOUS RADIO SIGNAL


The fundamental question is rebounding once again after a mysterious radio signal was picked up by a Russian telescope... READ MORE

11th September, 2016 179

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

30th November, 2015 115

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

27th July, 2015 60

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

12th August, 2015 57

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

22nd June, 2017 49

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

23rd July, 2015 48

'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

30th November, 2015 40

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

20th October, 2015 39

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

15th September, 2017 33

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

22nd June, 2017 27

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

5th January, 2016 26

ASTRONOMERS SEE PLANET STILL GROWING IN ITS STELLAR WOMB


The discovery also demonstrates a technique to find other baby planets by searching for the telltale hydrogen gas emissions... READ MORE

19th November, 2015 15

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

19th April, 2016 14

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

20th June, 2017 11

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

30th July, 2015 9

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

14th June, 2016 8

THESE BRAND NEW BABY EXOPLANETS COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND WHERE WORLDS COME FROM


These are large, Jupiter-sized planets that are very close to their star and have incredibly high surface temperatures... READ MORE

20th June, 2016 8

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

25th August, 2016 7

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

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