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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

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

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

According to new research, there could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars in our galaxy.

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Study: There Could be 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

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

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 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

A team of researchers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet nine times Earth's mass and 111 light years away.

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Astronomers Spot Water — and Maybe Rain — on a Distant Planet

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.

NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers Think They’ve Discovered the First Moon Outside Our Solar System

Researchers Think They’ve Discovered the First Moon Outside Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser

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The Kepler Mission Has Discovered Nearly 100 New Exoplanets

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA Discovery Proves That Solar Systems Like Our Own Exist

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NASA Is Hosting a Conference to Detail a Major Alien Planet Discovery

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

Here’s Your Critical Guide to the Hospitable Earth-Like Exoplanets

Here’s Your Critical Guide to the Hospitable Earth-Like Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann