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Kepler-11 and exoplanets

Space

Toddler stars’ baby fat kicks out almost all their exoplanets

The Kepler space telescope has found more singleton planets than expected. A new explanation blames young stars for tossing planets out in a tantrum

Artist's illustration depicts the interior of a low-mass star

Physics

Proxima b’s hyperactive star is more sun-like than thought

The ALMA observatory

Space

Weird binary system spotted with three rings around two stars

Proxima b

Space

Failed hunt for Proxima b鈥檚 star transit leaves us in the dark

Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

Space

Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

Flattened blue globe

Space

Superfast spinning stars cause strangest weather in the universe

Gas giant exoplanet in front of star

Space

Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone

Red orb with central yellow band

Space

Here’s what colourful clouds on alien gas giants would look like

planet heading for a yellow sun

Physics

Gang of gas giants may have tilted distant planet system

illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

Space

Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

We鈥檝e just discovered a planet in the nearest star system that could potentially host life. How do we find out more, and can we go visit?

Space

If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?

Space

Proxima b: Earth-like planet spotted just 4 light years away

Physics

Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri

Space

Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth