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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

Water on the planets nearest the TRAPPIST-1 star would be destroyed by UV radiation but it could survive on the cooler worlds in the habitable zone

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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

Features

Didier Queloz

Space

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

Features

planet orbit

Space

Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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False-colour infrared image of Uranus

Space

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

The off-kilter tumbling of the magnetic bubble around Uranus may regularly let a barrage of charged particles from the solar wind flow in

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Space

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

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

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Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star

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Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphere

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