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Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
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General relativity might save some planets from death
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A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest sun-like star
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Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b have all but vanished
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Water might be even more important for alien life than we thought
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Stellar flares may hamper search for life in promising star system
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Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise
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Exoplanet found in odd perpendicular orbit to brown dwarf star pair
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Astronomers uncover the topsy-turvy atmosphere of a distant planet
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Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found
A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this could be due to a huge amount of volcanic activity
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Habitable planets could have formed at the dawn of the universe
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An alien planet has winds that blow at 33,000 kilometres per hour
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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
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Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found
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