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The Most Fascinating Exoplanets of 2018 | Sarah Lewin Associate Editor | Space.com | December 27, 201

All or most of these appeared in topics in 2018. Here is the X-Planets keyword topics list for 2018:

Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery [2019]
Flat Earther & Sovereign Citizen Meets Veteran Cop [2019]
'Sub-Saturns' May Force Scientists to Revise Idea of How Planets Form [2019]
Why our galaxy probably isn't full of alien civilizations killed off by climate change [2019]
New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule [2019]
NASA Spacecraft Detects Weird Anomaly Days Ahead of Ultima Thule Flyby [2018]
New Horizons Will Spend New Years Exploring Ultima Thule, a Billion Miles Past Pluto [2018]
'Farout!' Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted [2018]
'Farout!' Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted [2018]
Outer solar system experts find 'far out there' dwarf planet [2018]
Computing the origin of life [2018]
A young star caught forming like a planet [2018]
Ultima Thule in Sight! New Horizons Probe Snaps New Photo of Its Target [2018]
Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon -- hundreds of times more than humans [2018]
This Fluffy Alien World Farts Helium [2018]
SETI Astronomers Find No Evidence for Artificial Transmitters on Oumuamua [2018]
12 years after launch, New Horizons probe zeroes in on mysterious Ultima Thule [2018]
Mysterious interstellar object conundrum intensifies as NASA reveals it didn't originally see it [2018]
Interstellar Comet Oumuamua is Smaller than Previously Thought, Has Highly Reflective Surface [2018]
Are the Laws of the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? [2018]
Frozen super-Earth discovered six light-years away [2018]
Harvard scientists say interstellar object may be a probe from an "alien civilization" [2018]
Billionaire Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Initiatives Eyes Private Mission to Seek Alien Life [2018]
Scientists Now Say Interstellar Object May Have Been Alien Probe [2018]
Scientists push back against Harvard 'alien spacecraft' theory [Oumuamua] [2018]
Signs of Earth's Weird, Elusive 'Dust Moons' Finally Spotted [2018]
One of Milky Way's Oldest Stars Discovered [2018]
Mysterious interstellar object could be 'lightsail' sent from another civilization [2018]
We may not have found aliens yet because we've barely begun looking [2018]
Astronomers find first evidence for a moon OUTSIDE our solar system: Rocky satellite the [tr] [2018]
Newfound Dwarf Planet 'The Goblin' May Lead to Mysterious Planet Nine [2018]
The disks of gas and dust that supposedly form planets don't seem to have the goods [2018]
NASA solves mystery of cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life [2018]
Oodles of virtual planets could help Google and NASA find actual aliens [2018]
Moore's Law: Life is Older than Earth Itself -- "A Process that Began Billions of Years Before... [2018]
Greetings From Vulcan? Planet Discovered Orbiting the Star of Spock's Homeworld in "Star Trek" [2018]
Researchers track 72 unusual radio bursts from outer space [2018]
Astronomers Find Two-Planet System in Beehive Cluster [2018]
Researchers Say the Reason Pluto Lost Its Planet Status is Not Valid [2018]
NASA news: Caltech nanomaterial 'speeds spacecraft 134,000,000 mph' [2018]
TRAPPIST-1 Worlds Are Rocky and Rich in Water, New Research Uncover [2018]
New Horizons Spots Its Next Flyby Target: Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 [2018]
Plutonian craters to be named after Star Trek characters [2018]
To Visit Distant Planets, Spacecraft May Need Better Computer Brains [2018]
Water-worlds are common: Exoplanets may contain vast amounts of water [2018]
Sprawling galaxy cluster found hiding in plain sight [2018]
I Don't Believe in Aliens Anymore [2018]
Massive glowing 'rogue' planet spotted 'drifting' in space [2018]
Bizarre Rogue 'Planet' with Incredible Auroras Puzzles Scientists [2018]
Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism [2018]
VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse [2018]
HD 26965b: Super-Earth Found Just 16 Light-Years Away [2018]
New radio telescope picks up mysterious signal from space [2018]
NASA's New Planet Hunter Begins Its Search for Alien Worlds [2018]
Europa Lander May Not Have to Dig Deep to Find Signs of Life [2018]
Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets [2018]
No Need for Planet Nine? Small Objects' Gravity Could Explain Weird Orbits [2018]
Pluto has dunes, but they're not made of sand [2018]
WikiLeaks podesta emails show that they are already communicating with extraterrestrials ( no joke!) [2018]
Mysterious 'Planet Nine' gets more evidence from weird space rock [2018]
It's full of stars! NASA's planet-hunting TESS probe sends back its first test image [2018]
The outer space octopus theory [2018]
Pros and Cons of Various Methods of Interstellar Travel [2018]
This May Be the Best Evidence Yet of a Water Plume on Jupiter's Moon Europa [2018]
Dyson Spheres, The Ultimate Alien Megastructures, Are Missing From The Galaxy [2018]
"Mars Trace Gas Orbiter begins search for methane" The John Batchelor Show with Robert Zimmerman [2018]
Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs [2018]
SpaceX Does it Again; Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)launched [2018]
Escape from Proxima b [2018]
Look at This Fascinating Variety of Planet-Forming Disks Around Other Stars [2018]
Substantial Lack Of Phosphorus In The Universe Makes Finding Alien Life Unlikely [2018]
The Alien Observatory --"We May Soon Discover Worlds That Host Lifeforms with Strange... [2018]
Hunting galaxies in Leo the Lion [2018]
Interstellar Trade Is Possible [2018]
What scientists found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth [2018]
How Did Uranus Form? [2018]
Scientist Says He's Found Fossilized Alien Footprints On Mars, Blames NASA For Cover-up [2018]
Meet TESS, NASA's Next Step in the Quest for Alien Earths [2018]
314 Action Wants to Elect Scientists, But Only if They're Democrats [2018]
Proxima Centauri's No Good, Very Bad Day [2018]
Survey suggests group of Milky Way stars are homegrown, not alien invaders [2018]
What Mysteries Lurk at Proxima Centauri? [2018]
If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it? [2018]
Are you rocky or are you gassy? Astronomers unlock the mysteries of super-Earths [2018]
TRAPPIST-1 Planets Are Even More Like Earth Than We Thought [2018]
The search for life on other planets could get a boost from biosignatures [2018]
TRAPPIST-1 system planets potentially habitable [2018]
Distant Galaxies Challenge Our Understanding of Star Formation [2018]
Earth Resides in Oddball Solar System, Alien Worlds Show [2018]
Researchers Probe Origin of Superpowerful Radio Blasts from Space [2018]