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Pigeons and woolly hats now have exoplanets named after them

More than 100 exoplanets and the stars they orbit have just been officially named by a public vote. The names reference woolly hats, bush pigeons, coffee and van Gogh

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CHEOPS artist's impression

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ESA is about to launch a space telescope to study how planets are made

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Inflatible green Aliens standing in line

Life

Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

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This artist's concept shows a hypothetical 'rejuvenated' planet,a gas giant that has reclaimed its youthful infrared glow. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found tentative evidence for one such planet around a dead star, or white dwarf, called PG 0010+280.

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We’ve discovered a planet orbiting an exploded star for the first time

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Exoplanet

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Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

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Artist's impression of a watery exoplanet

Space

Ocean worlds with a thick atmosphere may be better for life than Earth

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Strange exoplanet

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An unexpectedly enormous planet is orbiting a tiny star

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Illustration of a supermassive black hole

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Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star

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spaceman

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Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

Culture

Artists impression of a planet

Space

This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far

We've spotted water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet twice Earth’s size. It's probably the single best place to hunt for alien life that we know of

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Space

We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas

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Space

We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow

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Technology

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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Two planets orbiting a nearby star could have oceans and maybe life

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