Recent discoveries of planets outside our solar system make finding alien life seem more and more likely.
Data from NASA's Kepler telescope suggests there are 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.
It is believed that more than 50 of those discovered may be able to support life as we know it.
A 45-year-old gas worker has discovered four new planets from home in his own spare time.
Two scientists have come up with a method to detect forests on extrasolar worlds.
Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-like planets orbiting two close sister stars.
Scientists are hopeful that a space telescope to be launched in 2014 will be able to see oceans on other planets.
Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter sized exoplanet that resembles planets in our own solar system.
Astronomers say they are on the verge of discovering habitable Earth-like planets in orbit around distant stars.
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