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Hot Jupiters, giant gas balls as large and even larger than our Jupiter, are common in the exoplanetary community. A new model explains their weird orbital behavior. And it’s good news for us.

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NASA’s Kepler telescope searches the night sky for signs of Earthlike planets orbiting other suns. A recent data analysis has returned a stunningly high number of them.

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A recent survey found that Earthlike planets are more common around red dwarf stars. And there are lots of those nearby.

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A planet was found wandering alone in the sky and out of sight nearby parent star! The planet is thought to be born an orphan in the same way with the other normal planets: from the remnants of material around a young star. However, for some reason or another was thrown out of his home planet.

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A star devours his own planet and astronomers watching live phenomenon for the first time.

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Kepler Space Telescope confirms the existence two Earth size planets around another star.

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WASHINGTON-NASA say that they have found a planet located outside our solar system that is eerily similar to Earth.

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Last month CBS News, Huffington Post, The Daily Texan, USA Today and The Guardian all published an artist’s illustration of a planet in a binary star system as a photograph. A brilliant scientist/graphic artist created the realistic image for NASA–and said it was an "Artist Concept." Are fact checkers an endangered species? This article includes a video "The Art of Exoplanets."

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The first exoplanet placed in the super-Earth category, discovered on the 13th of June 2005. It’s located in the constellation of Aquarius, around 15 light-years away. The exoplanet orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 876, being one of three other exoplanets orbiting the same star.

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Recent news articles about the habitability of a newly discovered world 35 light-years from Earth are overblown, Scientists made a much weaker claim in the published report. The planet is as likely to be another furnace-like Venus as another Earth.