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A large terrestrial planet located 40 light years away could be the perfect place to search for ET.
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Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around GJ 1132b - a planet situated 39 light years away.
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Astronomers from around the world have been combining their efforts to seek out the new planet.
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Milan Schipper has become the latest hapless air traveler to wind up in Canada instead of Australia.
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Scientists at JPL have come up with an ambitious new plan to get a better look at extrasolar planets.
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The US Air Force's mysterious space plane is on track to break the mission duration record of 674 days.
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Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser space plane is being readied for a new series of tests in California.
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Scientists have put forward a plan to terraform Mars by surrounding the planet with a magnetic field.
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NASA has announced the discovery of seven new planets including three within their star's habitable zone.
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The space agency is due to announce its latest findings at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
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The move, if successful, could mean that our own solar system actually has more than 100 planets in it.
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An old type of aircraft commonly used during Word War II has been sighted numerous times over Derbyshire.
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The significant haul of new worlds includes a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' with a rocky surface.
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The experimental tether had been designed to help solve the problem of space junk in Earth's orbit.
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Do intelligent extraterrestrials see our planet in the same way as we might see a nature reserve ?
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Astronomers believe that a planet 14 light years away may be a promising place to look for alien life.
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Scientists are keen to launch a mission to Venus to investigate mysterious dark streaks in its clouds.
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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile will soon be seeking out habitable worlds around Alpha Centauri.
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A previously unknown asteroid dubbed 2017 AG13 passed between the Earth and the Moon yesterday.
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Curiosity has discovered minerals from over several million years of the Red Planet's geological history.