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exoplanets

Don't Pack Your Bags Yet—New Planet-Finder Hobbled by Electronic Glitch

Cutting-Edge Science Reveals: World Won't End on December 21, 2012

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A Profusion of Planets: Astronomers Spot 32 New Worlds Around Distant Stars

Study: Strange Planet Has Atmosphere of Gaseous Rock—and It Rains Pebbles

Rock Solid Evidence of a Rocky, Earth-like Exoplanet

Nicolas Cowan

Did Astronomers Catch Sight of an Exoplanet in Its Death Throes?

Oddball Planet Goes the Wrong Way & Is Dense as Packing Peanuts

NASA's New Kepler Spacecraft Is Ready to Find Some Earths

New Planet-Hunting Technique Turns Up Oddball Solar System

Scientists Hope to Discover Watery Planets by Looking at Our Own

For the First Time, Astronomers Observe the Phases of a Red-Hot Exoplanet

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