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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we鈥檝e never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change
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Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found
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Planet spotted orbiting Barnard’s star just 6 light years away
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Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank
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Planet in the ‘forbidden zone’ of dead star could reveal Earth’s fate
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Strange binary star system has three Earth-sized exoplanets
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JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets
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Hellish conditions have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg
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Strange planets could be forming inside dying stars
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A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club
The official definition of a planet, which famously saw Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006, doesn't really work for worlds outside of our solar system. Now there is a fix 鈥� but Pluto is still left out
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Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life
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Earth-like exoplanet found just 40 light years away 鈥� the closest yet
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Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?
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Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
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