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Most Earth-Like Alien Planet & 2 Other Possibly Habitable Worlds. News. ... All told, the scientists rolled out seven new exoplanets today — five in the Kepler-62 system and two in Kepler-69.

Two newly discovered alien planets might be water worlds whose global ... The two alien worlds are 1.6 and 1.4 times ... The other two worlds are in the Kepler-69 system, which lies about 2,700 ...

A rocky alien planet called Gliese 581d may be the first known world beyond Earth capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study suggests.

A planet outside our solar system the size of Jupiter is evaporating due to close proximity to its star. ... Alien planet's evaporating atmosphere revealed.

The alien planet GJ 504b is a colder and bluer world than astronomers had anticipated and it likely has a dark magenta hue, infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii revealed. "If we could ...

Planets as far away from their sun as Pluto is to ours could stay above freezing. Even rogue planets alone in the cosmos with no parent star might keep warm enough to support life (SN: 4/4/15, p. 22).