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An international team of astronomers has discovered more than 100 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) — that revolve around stars other than the Sun — in only three months,

A Nobel prize-winner thinks we'll detect aliens within 100 years, possibly sooner. Other scientists think we might never make contact.

An international team of researchers discovered an exoplanet relatively close to Earth, and its approximately the same size as our pale blue dot..

A Nobel prize-winner thinks we'll detect aliens within 100 years, possibly sooner. Other scientists think we might never make contact.

As the year ends, the catalogue of the possible habitable worlds has grown to 5,235 exoplanets.

This is a great time to be a space scientist as the latest space telescopes are allowing them to identify more Earth-like

The planets, which are about one and a half times the size of the Earth, were discovered along with its host star by Nasa’s Kepler Space Telescope.

A super-Earth is a type of planet that has a mass of 1.5 to 10 times greater than Earth’s. Over 1,500 super-Earths have been found.

Lean about four different ways we explore and research the planets in our Solar System.

Finding forming planets is a tough but important job for astronomers: Only three planets have ever been discovered caught in the process of forming, and the most recent of these was found just weeks ago. Study: Gemini-LIGHTS: Herbig Ae/Be and massive T-Tauri protoplanetary disks imaged with Gem