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Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri using latest telescope technique

Space is about to look a lot clearer, thanks to adaptive optics

Don't give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble 'scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away

Massive planets at far out distances from their stars are possible after all

Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life

Just a short 100 or more light years away

Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA's Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds

Video You, over there, rustle up a warp drive while we're finding a new galactic pad

Brit uni's AI algorithm clocks 50 exoplanets hidden in Kepler space 'scope archives

Machines are just better at finding alien worlds than us humans

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star

Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet

'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets

Pic and video Gassy giants make Jupiter look like an absolute tiddler

With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of civilizations in the galaxy

Pollution, sprawling cities of megastructures, any sign aliens are screwing up just like us...

Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way

Getting to them is, however, quite another kettle of fish

The little CubeSat that could: Launched from space station, ASTERIA is smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet

Let's head that way. Doesn't matter if there's no intelligent life on it – there's none here, either

Fomalhaut b exoplanet may have been cloud in a trench coat: Massive 'world' formed after 'mid-space super-prang'

Another one bites the dust

ESA's exoplanet hunter Cheops gets the green light to start checking out future spots mankind could settle on

Not boldly seeking out new worlds, mostly checking out the ones we know

Kepler telescope is dead but the data lives on: Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors

300 light years away but hey, why not?

Good luck pitching a tent on exoplanet WASP-76b, the bloody raindrops here are made out of molten iron

Raining irooooon, from a lacerated sky

If you're struggling to keep new year resolutions, try NGTS-10b, a mere 1,000 LY away. One year is just 18 hrs

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Pack your bags! NASA's latest exoplanet hunter satellite finds its first Earth-sized world in a habitable zone – and it's only 100 light years away

Vid TESS also spots Tatooine-alike

No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets

The IAU brandishes 112 new names for the star systems and its exoplanets to celebrate its 100 year anniversary

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

James Peebles gets half, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz each bag a quarter

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