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'Super Earth' spotted with telescope for the first time

It is an astronomical first: the Spitzer Space Telescope has directly spotted a 'super Earth' extrasolar planet orbiting a distant star via...

How would humanity react to alien visitation?

Aliens worlds have been in the news a lot lately. On Wednesday, NASA announced its Kepler Observatory would continue operating to 2016. Soon...

Scientist: first 'alien Earth' to be found by 2014

Two days ago, it was announced by NASA that the Kepler mission would continue operating until 2016, which, according to Shawn Domagal-Goldman, one...

NASA extends Kepler mission to 2016

NASA has just announced that is extending the mission life of its planet hunting Kepler Observatory to 2016. Launched in March, 2009, Kepler was...

Rogue planets could outnumber stars 100,000 to 1

Could planets without a parent star actually outnumber stars by a factor of around 100,000? Well, that's the number coming out of a new...

NASA finds a new kind of planet

NASA has just announced that, by using the Hubble Space Telescope, that it has found a completely new kind of extrasolar planet: a 'super-Earth...

NASA to make major announcement about Kepler, alien planets today

Today, NASA scientists will make an undisclosed announcement about the discovery of alien planets by its Kepler Observatory. Taking part in the...

Kepler mission verifies habitable zone planet around star beyond solar system

On Monday NASA announced that its Kepler mission has made it first confirmation of the existence of a planet outside the solar system which lies in...

Count of confirmed alien planets tops 700

Want to phone ET? Well, according to the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, the list of conformed planets outside our solar system has now topped 700...