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exoplanets

Glowing organisms

Space

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

Most of the closest exoplanets we’ve found orbit stars that can release flares of dangerous UV light, but those very flares might force life to evolve to 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

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Kepler 1625

Space

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

What appeared to be the first moon ever discovered around a planet circling another star may not really exist, but it seems like we’ll never know for sure

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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

Features

Space

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

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Space

We’ve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life

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