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Alien Planet is a 2005 docufiction TV special created for the Discovery Channel. Based on the 1990 book Expedition by the artist and writer Wayne Barlowe, Alien Planet explores the imagined extraterrestrial life of the fictional planet Darwin IV in the style of a nature documentary.
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- Charles Q. Choi
- 5,000th confirmed exoplanet at last. After 30 years of exoplanet discoveries, the tally of confirmed alien worlds reached 5,000 this year. Scientists added the new milestone entry to the NASA Exoplanet Archive in March.
- New class of alien planets. In September, astronomers announced that a new type of exoplanet had been discovered. Made of about half-rock and half-water, either in liquid or ice form, the exoplanets were found orbiting the most common stars in the universe.
- Hidden Jupiter-size world. Astronomers and citizen scientists joined forces to discover a mysterious planet the size of Jupiter around an alien star. If their calculations of its orbit are correct, they should be able to see it again in February.
- The alien planet Hulk. A newfound blazing-hot 'super-Earth' is one of the most massive ever discovered, an exoplanet covered in magma with a "year" that only lasts half a day.
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- Elizabeth Howell,Ailsa Harvey
- Gliese 667Cc. Gliese 667Cc lies just 22 light-years from Earth, and is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Kepler-22b. Kepler-22b lies 600 light-years away. It was the first Kepler planet found in the habitable zone of its parent star, but the world is considerably larger than Earth — about 2.4 times our planet's size.
- Kepler-69c. Kepler-69c, which is about 2,700 light-years away, is about 70 percent larger than Earth. So, once again, researchers are unsure about its composition.
- Kepler-62f. This planet is about 40 percent larger than Earth and orbits a star much cooler than our sun, according to NASA. Its 267-day orbit, however, puts Kepler-62f squarely within the habitable zone.
Apr 15, 2020 · The exoplanet, Kepler-1649c, circles a red dwarf star that lies 300 light-years from Earth, a new study reports. Kepler-1649c completes one orbit every 19.5 Earth days, putting the alien planet...
Sep 14, 2023 · News. By Harry Baker. published 14 September 2023. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected potential traces of dimethyl sulfide, a chemical only known to be created by phytoplankton on...
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Sep 29, 2023 · Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons is the most likely place in our solar system to be home to alien life. Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe....
Jun 27, 2023 · A 'captured' alien planet may be hiding at the edge of our solar system — and it's not 'Planet X' News. By Joanna Thompson. published 27 June 2023. The cold and mysterious Oort cloud at the...
