Fake planets reveal distance to Earth's nearest twin
4 November 2013
Kepler, the king of planet-hunting telescopes, may be dead but a simulation says an Earth-like planet is just 12 light years away
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Astrophile: Diamond planets get even more precious
2 May 2013
Milky Way miners will have to dig deeper for carbon planets than we realised – there is probably no more than one in every 1000 rocky worlds
Astrophile: Snapshot of a two-faced Tatooine world
22 March 2013
The picture of the giant planet might help tease out clues to how worlds form – or it might show that the object is no planet at all
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Closest Earth-like world could be 6.5 light years away
12 March 2013
A rocky world like ours that could support life is probably half as far away as we thought, according to new calculations for determining habitability
