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Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)

Scientists Think This Exoplanet Shows What Earth Will Become in the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of astronomers have announced the discovery of a "ocean planet" exoplanet orbiting a star some 100 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers Discover Apparent “Ocean Planet” 100 Light-Years From Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers may have discovered the youngest planet in our galaxy — a planet so young that it's still shrouded in its dusty, gaseous building blocks.

Astronomers Think They Found the Youngest Planet in the Galaxy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency (ESA) has discovered a planet shaped like a rugby ball due to the enormous tidal forces of its host star.

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Scientists Just Discovered a Planet That’s Not a Sphere

By Tony Ho Tran

This Bizarre Hell Planet Might Be the Most Brutal Ever Discovered

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This Bizarre Hell Planet Might Be the Most Brutal Ever Discovered

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers Discover Youngest Planet Ever Observed

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Astronomers Discover Youngest Planet Ever Observed

By Tony Ho Tran

The exoplanet where it rains molten iron every day has a calcium-rich atmosphere, meaning its even hotter than scientists thought.

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Scientists: Hell Planet Where It Rains Molten Iron Is Actually Worse Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an unprecedented look at the exoplanet WASP-127b and made new discoveries about its atmosphere and weather.

Scientists Manage to Study Weather on Planet in Different Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a tiny new exoplanet in a nearby solar system that they suspect has large oceans and the conditions to sustain life.

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Scientists Say Ocean Planet in Nearby Star System Could Support Life

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found an entire population of free-floating exoplanets toward the center of our galaxy by spotting tiny microlensing events at nearby stars.

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Scientists Spot Earth-Like Planets Floating Around Without Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists traced a radio signal back to a hot Jupiter exoplanet. If confirmed, it could help the hunt for habitable worlds.

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Cornell Scientists Find Radio Signal Coming From an Exoplanet

By Dan Robitzski

An ultrahot gas giant that's even darker than asphalt is going to crash into its star significantly sooner than scientists thought.

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A Super-Black Planet Is About to Literally Crash Into Its Star

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency just signed off on two years worth of feasibility studies, clearing an exoplanet-studying space telescope for launch in 2029.

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Upcoming Space Telescope Will Study the Atmospheres of Distant Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers from the University of Kansas have discovered evidence for an atmosphere around an extremely hot exoplanet — that shouldn't exist.

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If the Readings Are Right, There’s Something Very Strange About This Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers managed to confirm the existence of an exoplanet by taking a picture of it for the first time.

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Scientists Just Took an Actual Picture of a Planet in Another Star System

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted something strange and unexpectedly sad: a rogue planet floating freely in the dark confines of our galaxy.

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An Earth-Sized Planet Is Floating Around Without a Star

By Victor Tangermann

NASA launched a new citizen science project called Planet Patrol that asks for the public to help identify new exoplanets.

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New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they may have discovered an exoplanet that resembles Saturn in another galaxy, but it could be decades before they know for sure.

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Scientists Claim to Find First-Ever Planet in Another Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a "pi Earth," an Earth-sized planet that orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days.

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Astronomers Discover “Pi Earth” Planet That Orbits Every 3.14 Days

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a solar system with three stars that tore apart its own protoplanetary disc with the stars' bizarre orbits.

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A Three-Star System Ripped Apart Its Own Protoplanetary Disc

By Dan Robitzski

A machine learning algorithm created by a team of scientists at Warwick University just confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world first.

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An AI Just Confirmed the Existence of 50 Planets By Digging Through NASA Data

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."

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Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system named SPOCK (yes, we know) can predict the orbit of distant exoplanets to figure out if they're going to collide.

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New AI Predicts Which Planets Are Going to Smash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently discovered an exoplanet the size of Neptune that whips around its star nearly once per week, all while being bombarded by solar storms.

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NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Whipping Around Star Every Week

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.

Astronomers Discover “Mirror Image” of Our Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers was able to confirm the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-like planet that's orbiting the star closest to the Sun.

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New Research: Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers think they've captured an image of an exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star that's closest to our solar system.

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This Blurry Photo May Show a Planet in a Neighboring Star System

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of scientists have discovered an exciting Earth-sized exoplanet that's capable of supporting liquid water.

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Astronomers Discover “Intriguing,” Extremely Earth-Like Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers discovered an exoplanet called WASP-76b with an extreme atmosphere: iron is vaporized in the day and rains back down at night.

Astronomers Found a Brutal Hell Planet Where It Rains Liquid Iron

By Dan Robitzski

Michelle Kunimoto, an astronomy student, has discovered 17 new planets, including an Earth-like one that could host life, using data from NASA.

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Student Discovers 17 Planets, One of Which Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers determined that an exoplanet called K2-18b is capable of holding liquid water at habitable conditions.

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Astronomers Conclude Massive Exoplanet Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at Penn State just confirmed the existence of G 9-40b, a gigantic super-Earth only roughly 90 light years from Earth.

This Gigantic Neptune-Sized Exoplanet is Incredibly Close

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.

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Here’s How NASA’s New Machine Weighs Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.

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Scientists Find Dead Star Roasting Its Giant Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found an exoplanet that should've been swallowed by its Sun during the red giant evolutionary stage — but they could still pinpoint its location.

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Did This Planet Survive Getting Swallowed By Its Sun?

By Victor Tangermann

The newly discovered exoplanet NGTS-10b has set a new record for shortest orbit, zipping around its star in just 18.4 hours.

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Doomed Exoplanet Sets Record for Shortest Orbit Around a Star

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with an extremely elliptical orbit that sets it apart from any other known planet.

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Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is “Unlike Any Other”

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have found that a distant exoplanet is so drawn by the gravitational pull from its host star, it's being deformed into the shape of a football.

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Scientists Just Found a Hellish Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers from Cornell University claim they've found the first potentially habitable "super-earth," an Earth-like planet outside the Solar System.

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Satellite Spots “First Nearby Super-Earth” That Could Harbor Life

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just dropped an astonishing elaborate map of the over 4,003 exoplanets that we know to exist outside our Solar System.

NASA Just Released an Incredible Map of All Known Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that some moons may escape their host planets' orbits to become "ploonets" — and Earth's own Moon could eventually join their ranks.

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Our Moon Could Escape Earth’s Orbit and Become a “Ploonet”

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS mission has a new discovery: a small exoplanet named L 98-59b, the tiniest TESS has ever spotted, which NASA says could have its own atmosphere.

NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever

By Natalie Coleman

A newly-discovered exoplanet called Teegarden b is more similar to Earth than any other world scientists have spotted so far.

Scientists Find the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever — and It’s Nearby

By Dan Robitzski

The inward migration of a recently formed exoplanet is causing never-before-seen structures to form in its host star's protoplanetary disk.

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A Baby Exoplanet Is Creating Strange Dust Rings Around Its Star

By Kristin Houser

For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a "forbidden planet" in an orbit previously thought to be impossible.

Astronomers Find Distant “Forbidden Planet” In “Neptunian Desert”

By Victor Tangermann

A new theory suggests that a type of exoplanet two to four times the size of Earth ("sub-Neptunes") is likely to be a water world, not a gas dwarf.

Exoplanet “Water Worlds” Could Hold Unfathomably Deep Alien Oceans

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, astronomers have used a technique known as optical interferometry to study an exoplanet — and it could help in our hunt for aliens.

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New Method Could Help Astronomers Find Life-Supporting Exoplanets

By Kristin Houser

Barnard's Star b, a nearby exoplanet, could have 'life zones' under its frigid surface, according to a team of astrophysicists.

One of the Closest Exoplanets to Earth Could Support Alien Life

By Kristin Houser

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Scientists Just Discovered the Second-Closest Exoplanet to Earth

By Sarah Marquart

Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way

Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way

By Kristin Houser

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Hazy Experiments Could Teach Us About Alien Life

Hazy Experiments Could Teach Us About Alien Life

By Chelsea Gohd

New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon

New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

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The Kepler Mission Has Discovered Nearly 100 New Exoplanets

By Chelsea Gohd

A NASA Expert Says This Is The “Ultimate” Test for AI in Space Exploration

A NASA Expert Says This Is The “Ultimate” Test for AI in Space Exploration

By Chelsea Gohd

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ESPRESSO Is Our Most Powerful Planet-Hunting Tool Yet

By Chelsea Gohd

Super Earth planets could host alien life.

A Second Super Earth Spotted 111 Light-Years Away

By Chelsea Gohd

We May Have Just Found Twenty Habitable Worlds

We May Have Just Found Twenty Habitable Worlds

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Discover 3 New “Super-Earth” Exoplanets

Scientists Discover 3 New “Super-Earth” Exoplanets

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Scientists Just Found the First Evidence That the Trappist-1 System Might Contain Water

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Astrophysicists Believe They’ve Found Another Earth-Like Planet in a Nearby Star System

By Chelsea Gohd

Researchers Have Discovered Two Potentially Habitable Planets 12 Light Years Away

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Researchers Have Discovered Two Potentially Habitable Planets 12 Light Years Away

We May Have Just Found the First Moon Outside Our Solar System

We May Have Just Found the First Moon Outside Our Solar System

PLATO Deep-Space Observatory Will Search for Exoplanets and Alien Life

PLATO Deep-Space Observatory Will Search for Exoplanets and Alien Life