Odd Alien Planets So Close Together They See 'Planetrise'

Satellite finds three potentially life-friendly planets

Scientists have yet to find alien life forms or another world where water flows freely, but a recent discovery makes them thinking they are on the brink of locating many Earth-like planets. On Thursday, astronomers announced in two different studies that NASA's Kepler telescope had spotted three far-off planets that could potentially support life.    

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Perfect Planets for Alien Life

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NASA discovers earth-like planets that may be capable of supporting life

Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, discovered three planets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them is perhaps the most Earth-like alien world spotted to...

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10 Places On Earth That Resemble Alien Planets

NASA and other space agencies around the world have identified several "terrestrial analogues," or places on Earth that closely resemble the landscape of some other known alien world.

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Submarine volcano an alien landscape

IT LOOKS like a giant smashed birthday cake, weirdly coloured and spewing steam and smoke. This is as close as you can get to walking on an alien planet.    

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Odd Space Objects Could Be New Type Of Planet

By Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine Mysterious dense bodies outside the Solar System could be the remnants of ice giants similar to Neptune that wandered too close to their suns, according to results presented this week at a meeting on exoplanets at the Royal Society in London. Among the most puzzling finds of NASA’s Kepler space mission to find exoplanets, which...

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Alien life could be detectable on planets around dying stars

An update to the James Webb Space Telescope will make it possible to detect oxygen and water on an Earth-like planet

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Scientists Can Now Watch Planets Being Born Around Alien Stars

The world's most powerful radio telescope will scientists watch planets as they are being born around alien stars, astronomers have said ahead of its official inauguration. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (Alma) is a giant, 66-telescope instrument located in Northern Chile. Spread over 16 square kilometers, at an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, the...

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NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life

The two planets, 1,200 light-years away, are the best candidates for habitable planets astronomers have found so far and circle star that is 2.5 billion years older than the Sun. Read more

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Alien solar system has two worlds that look a lot like home

Scanning the heavens, you might very well miss the star Kepler-62. It’s a rather typical star, slightly smaller, cooler, and more orange than the Sun, much like tens of billions of other stars in our galaxy. But it holds a surprise: It’s orbited by at least five planets ... and two of them are Earth-sized and orbit the star in its habitable zone.The two planets, called...

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