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Billions and billions of planets New technique to discover Earth-like planets

NASA's Spitzer puts planets in a Petri Dish Can one buy the right to name a planet?

Exocomets may be as common as exoplanets The hunt for exomoons

At least one in six stars has an Earth-sized planet Blue Marble Space Institute of Science

Astronomers observe planets around another star like never before

Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation

Under pressure: how the density of exoplanets' atmospheres weighs on the odds for alien life

Keplar 62 offers two exoplanets similar to Earth

Planet found in nearest star system to Earth Tau Ceti may have an habitable planet

Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system

A young protoplanet candidate embedded in the circumstellar disk of HD100546

NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System A stray planet

Search for life suggests solar systems more habitable than ours Astrobiology Network

Armchair astronomers find planet in four-star system Video discussion of exoplanets

Planet Population is Plentiful Can life emerge on planets around cooling stars?

Extrasolar Planetary Systems The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia Exoplanets to scale

Planetary Habitability Catalog Planetary Habitability Laboratory

Greenhouse Effect Could Extend Habitable Zone

The HARPS search for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone The habitable zone and extreme planetary orbit

New conditions for life on other planets Tidal Forces Could Squeeze Out Planetary Water

The Earth as a benchmark: spectropolarimetry unveils strong bio-signatures Our Cosmic Self-Esteem

NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

Tidal Locking Could Render Habitable Planets Inhospitable Wanted: Habitable Moons

Solar system with six exoplanets, others in habitable zones found by NASA's Kepler

New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby cool star

Alien Earths could form earlier than expected Looking for Earths by looking for Jupiters

Planets can form around different types of stars Exploring New Worlds

Planet-forming disk turns off lights, locks doors - going out of business!

The Planet Hunter How One Astronomer Became the Unofficial Exoplanet Record-Keeper

New light shed on planet formation Discovery Creates New Class of Planetary Systems

A false positive for ocean glint on exoplanets: the lattitude-albedo effect

Comparing HARPS and Keplar surveys: the alignment of multiple-planet systems

Popular Solar System orbits result in planet 'pile-ups' ALMA reveals workings of nearby planetary system

Keck Observatory pictures show fourth planet in giant solar system

Rage Against the Dying of the Light Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World Sight

Visions and Voyages for Planetary Science 2013 - 2022

Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data

NASA's Kepler announces 11 planetary systems hosting 26 planets

Temporal variations in the evaporating atmosphere of exoplanet HD 189733b

Evidence for disintegration of KIC 12557548 b

When stellar metallicity sparks planet formation

The Diamond Planet Giant Super-Earths made of diamonds are possible

Nearby super-Earth likely a diamond planet