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Illustration of life forms on a hypothetical planet with a slightly lower mass than the Earth. It has shallow seas and extreme tides due to its large moon (thin crescent at left). The vegetation is translucent which allows the light to shine through, so it seems to be glowing, due to it being backlit in this image.

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

Lisa Kaltenegger has been working on how to find life on exoplanets since the 1990s. Her new book, Alien Earths, brings her quest to vivid life

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Mysterious space signals may come from a dead star with a planet

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Kill the sun! How wild thought experiments drive scientific discovery

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How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?

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How to destroy a black hole

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Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

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It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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Neptune isn't as blue as we thought it was

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Uranus, showing its rings and nine of the planet's 27 moons

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Stunning JWST image of Uranus shows 13 rings and nine moons

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Stolen planet could be hiding on the edge of our solar system

When the sun was young, it may have stolen a planet from another nearby star – meaning an exoplanet could be waiting on the outer edges of the solar system for us to discover

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Passing star could fling Earth out past Pluto into the Oort cloud

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What would life on Earth be like if our planet were cube-shaped?

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Comets may bring ingredients for life most easily to clustered planets

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Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet?

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