A few months ago, a group of Nasa exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest.
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Nasa’s planet-spotting telescope has uncovered another three planets, which scientists say include the first nearby super-Earth.
Scientists say they have discovered three new planets outside our solar system which orbit a star situated 73 light years away from Earth.
A new space telescope has discovered its first Earth-sized planet in a star system beyond the sun.
Elon Musk has famously quipped he’d like to die on Mars, but the satellite his company just launched for Nasa could put even more distant planets on his radar. SpaceX sent to orbit on Wednesday a planet-hunter
For centuries, humans have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbour strange forms of life or have unique and telling histories or futures