Horror in space: Hot alien giant boiled alive by nasty radiation-belching star
Colossus suffers cosmic tanning session from hell
Science06 Jun 2017 | 19
Exoplanet
Warm, wet, mysterious... sound familiar? Ah, yes, you've heard of this second Neptune, too
Boffins share findings of strange alien world 440 light years away
Science13 May 2017 | 28
PACK YOUR BAGS! Boffins spot Earth-size planet most likeliest yet to harbor alien life
Water, check. Low radiation, check. Possible to get to... oh wait, darn
Science19 Apr 2017 | 54
Feel like a spot of planet-hunting? Here's 1,600 suns worth of data
Decades of exoplanet observations are yours for the downloading
Science14 Feb 2017 | 5
Kepler's K2 mission confirms 104 Earth-like planets
Fancy a 24-day year?
Science19 Jul 2016 | 15
Science non-fiction: Newly spotted alien world bathes in glow of three stars
First planet spotted by SPHERE is a weird one
Science07 Jul 2016 | 30
BROADER TOPICS
Planet 9 a captured alien, astroboffins suggest
Exoplanet theory for mysterious trans-Neptunian object
Science01 Jun 2016 | 20
Astroboffin discovers exoplanet by accident ... in 1917
No space telescopes required, archive discovery reveals
Science13 Apr 2016 | 33
Short weekend break: Skegness or exoplanet HD 189733b?
Our handy cut-out-and-keep comparison guide
Bootnotes20 Nov 2015 | 42
Red dwarf superflares batter formerly 'habitable' exoplanet
Kepler-438b: Decidedly less livable than previously thought
Science18 Nov 2015 | 43
Today's exoplanet weather: 1,000°C, glass rain, 8,700 km/h winds
Fancy a weekend break on HD 189733b?
Science13 Nov 2015 | 28
Ideal solar system for SECOND EARTH found – and it's just 186 light-years away
It's got a Sun and a Jupiter. What's not to like?
Science16 Jul 2015 | 46
ATTENTION SETI scientists! It's TOO LATE: ALIENS will ATTACK in 2049
SETI boffins have forgotten the Bebo Incident of 2008
Science13 Feb 2015 | 99
Boffins open 'space travel bureau': Come relax on exoplanet Kepler-16b, says NASA
Pics With neat posters in a 1930s style
Science08 Jan 2015 | 38
ALIEN EARTH: Red sun's habitable world spotted 470 light years away
'These are the planets we're looking for' - SETI boffin
Science07 Jan 2015 | 40
Astronomers spot hint of first EXOMOON, possibly
Passing planetary body provides fleeting glimpse of something special
Science11 Apr 2014 | 15
European Space Agency: PLATO will seek out 'ADVANCED LIFE forms'... 'SLIME'
Shiny new alien world spotter to blast off in 10 years' time
Science20 Feb 2014 | 12
Boffins find ALIEN WORLD orbiting the Sun's LONG LOST TWIN
Could there be LIFE as well? Maybe, maybe not...
Science16 Jan 2014 | 52
Alien SUPER-EARTH: If there is LIFE up there, it'll be moaning about the weather
'The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin
Science02 Jan 2014 | 29
Astroboffins spot HOT, YOUNG GIANT where she doesn't belong
Pix No one understands her, but she's far out, man
Science06 Dec 2013 | 25
Alien planet is just like EARTH - except for ONE tiny detail
Doomed, scorchio planet is far too close to its sun
Science31 Oct 2013 | 80
Super-SVELTE BLUSH-PINK planet goes too far with star
Low-mass Jupiter-like exoplanet challenges planetary formation theory
Science06 Aug 2013 | 43
Boffins spot 7 ALIEN WORLDS right in our galactic backyard
Confirmed Milky Way exoplanets could be home to ETs
Science11 Dec 2012 | 68
Swollen SUPER-GIGANTO PLANET sighted in Andromeda
Vasty orb big as 13 Jupiters snapped 170 lightyears off
Science20 Nov 2012 | 27
DOCTOR WHO world, or Magrathea, SPOTTED* orbiting twin suns
NASA star scope confirms sci-fi planets realistic
Science29 Aug 2012 | 19
Boffins: We are VAPORISING the Earth... for science
Supervillainesque move helps them learn about super-earths
Science06 Aug 2012 | 10
Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy
Loads of Earthlike worlds in the habitable zone around stars
Science11 Jan 2012 | 71
Potential ALIEN LIFE habitats FOUND ON MOONS
Endor, Pandora turn out to be inspired guesses
Science05 Dec 2011 | 36
Exoplanet ranking suggests INTERSTELLAR WAR imminent
Too late to recall idiotic message beamed at alien star
Science24 Nov 2011 | 43
Alien city lights could be detected across interstellar space
ET hiveplexes easier to pick up than their TV signals
Science04 Nov 2011 | 53
Planet with British weather found 20 light years away
Cold, rainy, inhabitants likely to be hostile
Science17 May 2011 | 77
NASA trumpets rocky exoplanet find
Kepler-10b is 'planetary missing link'
Science11 Jan 2011 | 14
World of diamonds bigger than the Ritz discovered
Strange carbon mountains of farflung planet
Science09 Dec 2010 | 33
HABITABLE ALIEN WORLD discovered 20 light-years away!
War inevitable if advanced life present, thanks to Bebo
Science30 Sep 2010 | 114
Sun-like star HD10180 thought to have Earth-sized world
Seven-planet system orbits spaced much like ours
Science24 Aug 2010 | 19
Stargazers spy super-Earth waterworld
Bit too hot for Kevin Costner, though
Science17 Dec 2009 | 34
El Reg receives message from planet 'Female Pigeon'
Peristera pecks back
Science27 Oct 2009 | 36
'Exomoonologist': NASA can detect forest moon of Endor
Possible multi-civilisation star systems too
Science04 Sep 2009 | 22
Stargazers spy retrograde planetary bloater
Bigger than Jupiter, and orbiting backwards
Science13 Aug 2009 | 32
Interstellar Bebo spamgasm targeted at 'water world'
Web-2.0 tomfoolery could trigger alien jellyfish attack
Science22 Apr 2009 | 24
Force 1800 superhurricanes snapped on far-off world
Pic 'These images are not artists' impressions'
Science29 Jan 2009 | 25
Biting the hand that feeds IT
